Impact of tag-side interference on time-dependent CP asymmetry measurements using coherent B0B0 pairs

Owen Long, Max Baak, Robert N. Cahn, and David Kirkby
Phys. Rev. D 68, 034010 – Published 14 August 2003
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Abstract

Interference between Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) favored bcūd and doubly-CKM-suppressed b¯ūcd¯ amplitudes in final states used for B-flavor tagging gives deviations from the standard time evolution assumed in CP-violation measurements at B factories producing coherent B0B0 pairs. We evaluate these deviations for the standard time-dependent CP-violation measurements, the uncertainties they introduce in the measured quantities, and give suggestions for minimizing them. The uncertainty in the measured CP asymmetry for CP eigenstates is 2% or less. The time-dependent analysis of D*π, proposed for measuring sin(2β+γ), must incorporate possible tag-side interference, which could produce asymmetries as large as the expected signal asymmetry.

  • Received 22 March 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.68.034010

©2003 American Physical Society

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Owen Long1, Max Baak2, Robert N. Cahn3, and David Kirkby4

  • 1University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
  • 2NIKHEF, National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 1009 DB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 3Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 4University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA

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Vol. 68, Iss. 3 — 1 August 2003

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