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Does CPT violation affect the B_d meson life times and decay asymmetries?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-04-05 v4

Abstract

We study indirect CPT violating effects in B_d meson decays and mixing, taking into account the recent constraints on the CPT violating parameters from the Belle collaboration. The life time difference of the B_d meson mass eigenstates, expected to be negligible in the standard model and many of its CPT conserving extensions, could be sizeable (\sim a few percent of the total width) due to breakdown of this fundamental symmetry. The time evolution of the direct CP violating asymmetries in one amplitude dominated processes (inclusive semileptonic B_d decays, in particular) turn out to be particularly sensitive to this effect.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0209090,
  title  = {Does CPT violation affect the B_d meson life times and decay asymmetries?},
  author = {Amitava Datta and E. A. Paschos and L. P. Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0209090},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

17 pages, 4 figures. Typos corrected and references added