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New, Efficient and Clean Strategies to Explore CP Violation Through Neutral B Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-23 v2

Abstract

We point out that decays of the kind BdD±KS(L)B_d\to D_\pm K_{S(L)} and BsD±η(),D±ϕ,...B_s\to D_\pm\eta^{(')},D_\pm\phi, ..., where D+D_+ and DD_- denote the CP-even and CP-odd eigenstates of the neutral D-meson system, respectively, provide very efficient, theoretically clean determinations of the angle γ\gamma of the unitarity triangle. In this new strategy, we use the Bq0B^0_q--Bq0ˉ\bar{B^0_q} (q{d,s}q\in\{d,s\}) mixing phase ϕq\phi_q as an input, and employ only ``untagged'' and mixing-induced CP-violating observables, which satisfy a very simple relation, allowing us to determine tanγ\tan\gamma. Using a plausible dynamical assumption, γ\gamma can be fixed in an essentially unambiguous manner. The corresponding formalism can also be applied to BdD±π0,D±ρ0,>...B_d\to D_\pm\pi^0,D_\pm\rho^0, >... and BsD±KS(L)B_s\to D_\pm K_{S(L)} decays. Although these modes appear less attractive for the extraction of γ\gamma, they provide interesting determinations of sinϕq\sin\phi_q. In comparison with the conventional BdJ/ψKS(L)B_d\to J/\psi K_{S(L)} and BsJ/ψϕB_s\to J/\psi\phi methods, these extractions do not suffer from any penguin uncertainties, and are theoretically cleaner by one order of magnitude.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0301255,
  title  = {New, Efficient and Clean Strategies to Explore CP Violation Through Neutral B Decays},
  author = {Robert Fleischer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0301255},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

14 pages, no figures, sign error in factorization prediction for cos(delta) corrected and numerical examples modified accordingly, conclusions unchanged