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Measurement of CP-Violating Asymmetries in the B0->K+K-Ks Dalitz Plot

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2009-05-09 v2

Abstract

We present a preliminary measurement of CP-violation parameters in the decay B0->K+K-Ks, using approximately 465 million BBbar events collected by the BABAR detector at SLAC. Reconstructing the neutral kaon as Ks->pi+pi- or Ks->pi0pi0, we analyze the Dalitz plot distribution and measure fractions to intermediate states. We extract CP parameters from the asymmetries in amplitudes and phases between B0 and B0bar decays across the Dalitz plot. From a fit to the whole Dalitz plot, we measure beta_eff = 0.44 +/- 0.07 +/- 0.02, A_CP = 0.03 +/- 0.07 +/- 0.02, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second ones are systematic. For decays to phiKs, we measure beta_eff = 0.13 +/- 0.13 +/- 0.02, A_CP = 0.14 +/- 0.19 +/- 0.02. For decays to f0Ks, we measure beta_eff = 0.15 +/- 0.13 +/- 0.03, A_CP = 0.01 +/- 0.26 +/- 0.07. From a fit to the region of the Dalitz plot with m_{K+K-}>1.1 GeV/c^2, we measure beta_eff = 0.52 +/- 0.08 +/- 0.03, A_CP = 0.05 +/- 0.09 +/- 0.04.

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@article{arxiv.0808.0700,
  title  = {Measurement of CP-Violating Asymmetries in the B0->K+K-Ks Dalitz Plot},
  author = {The BABAR Collaboration and B. Aubert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.0700},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

22 pages, 17 postscript figures, submitted to ICHEP2008; v2: corrected figure 5