Observation of CP violation in the $B^0$ system

C. Touramanis

Observation of CP violation in the $B^0$ system

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2007-05-23 v1

Authors: C. Touramanis

Abstract

The BABAR detector, operating at energies near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance at the PEP-II asymmetric $B$ Factory at SLAC, has collected a sample of 32 million $B\bar B$ pairs by May 2001. A study of time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in events where one neutral $B$ meson is fully reconstructed in a final state containing charmonium has resulted in the measurement $\sin2\beta=0.59 \pm 0.14 {\rm (stat)} \pm 0.05 {\rm (syst)}$ , which establishes CP violation in the $B^0$ meson system at the 4 $\sigma$ level. $B$ lifetime and mixing measurements from a sub-sample of 23 million $B\bar B$ pairs are also presented.

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CP violation $B^0$ system BABAR detector sin2beta measurement time-dependent asymmetries

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0110064,
  title  = {Observation of CP violation in the $B^0$ system},
  author = {C. Touramanis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0110064},
  year   = {2007}
}

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11 pages, 5 figures, contributed to the Proceedings of the International Europhysics Conference on HEP (HEP2001)

Observation of CP violation in the $B^0$ system

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