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Comment on extracting alpha from B -> rho rho

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

Recent experimental results on BρρB\to\rho\rho decays indicate that the CP asymmetry Sρ+ρS_{\rho^+\rho^-} will give an interesting determination of α=arg[(VtdVtb)/(VudVub)]\alpha=\arg[-(V_{td}V_{tb}^*)/(V_{ud}V_{ub}^*)]. In the limit when the ρ\rho width is neglected, the BππB\to\pi\pi isospin analysis can also be applied to BρρB\to\rho\rho, once an angular analysis is used to separate transversity modes. The present bound on the shift of Sρ+ρS_{\rho^+\rho^-} from the true sin2α\sin2\alpha is already stronger than it is for Sπ+πS_{\pi^+\pi^-}. We point out a subtle violation of the isospin relations when the two ρ\rho mesons are observed with different invariant masses, and how to constrain this effect experimentally.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0310242,
  title  = {Comment on extracting alpha from B -> rho rho},
  author = {Adam F. Falk and Zoltan Ligeti and Yosef Nir and Helen Quinn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0310242},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, minor changes

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