Jul, 2003
Evidence for CP-violating asymmetries in B-0 ->pi(+)pi(-) decays and constraints on the CKM angle phi(2)
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
- 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 : 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.012001
- ISSN : 2470-0010
- eISSN : 2470-0029
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000184583700006