Cascade Mixing and the CP-Violating Angle Beta
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
In the decay chain B(d) --> Psi + K --> Psi + (pi l nu), neutral K mixing follows on the heels of neutral B mixing. This "cascade mixing" leads to an interference which probes cos(2*beta), where beta is one of the three CP-violating phase angles which characterize CP violation in the Standard Model. Widely-discussed future B-system experiments will determine trigonometric functions of these three phase angles, leaving the underlying angles themselves discretely ambiguous. A determination of cos(2*beta) through cascade mixing would eliminate all the discrete ambiguities entirely.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9709382,
title = {Cascade Mixing and the CP-Violating Angle Beta},
author = {Boris Kayser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9709382},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
To appear in the Proceedings of the Moriond Workshop on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, Les Arcs, France, March 1997. 10 pages. PS file