Abstract
The pattern of violation in the bottom sector is discussed. We introduce general techniques to expose new -violating effects in the cascade decays of mesons. In the Kobayashi-Maskawa (KM) model, the asymmetries so obtained range from 2-20% for plausible values of the model parameters. This is to be compared with the small effects, of order -, previously exhibited within this model. Effects of this size should be observable in upcoming experiments. Our approach stresses the on-shell transitions which make up the cascade decays of heavy mesons to ordinary hadrons, as opposed to the off-shell transitions which occur in the analogs of mixing. The asymmetries generated by our techniques are of order , where is the KM phase angle, and thus represent the maximum effects obtainable in this model.
- Received 27 June 1980
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.23.1567
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