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Fast CP Violation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-01-25 v2

Abstract

BB flavor tagging will be extensively studied at the asymmetric BB factories due to its importance in CP asymmetry measurements. The primary tagging modes are the semileptonic decays of the bb (lepton tag), or the hadronic bc(s)b \to c (\to s) decays (kaon tag). We suggest that looking for time dependent CP asymmetries in events where one BB is tagged leptonically and the other one is tagged with a kaon could result in an early detection of CP violation. Although in the Standard Model these asymmetries are expected to be small, 1\sim 1%, they could be measured with about the same amount of data as in the ``gold-plated'' decay BdψKSB_d \to \psi K_S. In the presence of physics beyond the Standard Model, these asymmetries could be as large as 5\sim 5%, and the first CP violation signal in the BB system may show up in these events. We give explicit examples of new physics scenarios where this occurs.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9805508,
  title  = {Fast CP Violation},
  author = {Yuval Grossman and Jose R. Pelaez and Mihir P. Worah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9805508},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

9 pages, revtex, no figures. Discussion of new physics effects on CP violation with two lepton tags expanded. Factors of 2 corrected