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Evidence for an anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-08-15 v1

Abstract

We present a measurement of the like-sign dimuon asymmetry in semileptonic bb-hadron decays, performed using 6.1 fb1^{-1} of ppˉp\bar{p} collisions recorded with the D0 detector at a center-of-mass energy s=1.96\sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. This measured value is Aslb=[0.957±0.251(stat)±0.146(syst)]A^b_{\rm sl} = [-0.957\pm0.251\thinspace({\rm stat})\pm0.146\thinspace({\rm syst})] %, which disagrees with the Standard Model prediction at a statistical level of 3.2 σ\sigma, and provides the first evidence of anomalous CP violation in the mixing of neutral BB mesons.

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@article{arxiv.1106.4768,
  title  = {Evidence for an anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry},
  author = {M. R. J. Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.4768},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Presented at the Ninth International Conference on Flavor Physics and CP Violation (FPCP 2011), Maale Hachamisha, Israel, May 23-27, 2011