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Evidence for CP-violating asymmetries in B-0 ->pi(+)pi(-) decays and constraints on the CKM angle phi(2)

PHYSICAL REVIEW D
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Volume
68
Number
1
First page
1
Last page
15
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.68.012001
Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC

We present an improved measurement of CP-violating asymmetries in B-0-->pi(+)pi(-) decays based on a 78 fb(-1) data sample collected at the Y(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e(+)e(-) collider. We reconstruct one neutral B meson as a B-0-->pi(+)pi(-) CP eigenstate and identify the flavor of the accompanying B meson from inclusive properties of its decay products. We apply an unbinned maximum likelihood fit to the distribution of the time intervals between the two B meson decay points. The fit yields the CP-violating asymmetry amplitudes A(pipi) = +0.77 +/-0.27(stat) +/-0.08(syst) and S-pipi = -1.23+/-0.41(stat) (+0.08)(-0.07)(syst), where the statistical uncertainties are determined from the Monte Carlo pseudoexperiments. We obtain confidence intervals for CP-violating asymmetry parameters A(pipi) and S-pipi based on a frequentist approach. We rule out the CP-conserving case, A(pipi) = S-pipi = 0, at the 99.93% confidence level. We discuss how these results constrain the value of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) angle phi(2).

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.68.012001
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000184583700006&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.012001
  • ISSN : 2470-0010
  • eISSN : 2470-0029
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000184583700006

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