On the Other Five KM Triangles
Abstract
A comprehensive program of \cp~studies in heavy flavour decays has to go beyond observing large \cp asymmetries in nonleptonic B decays and finding that the sum of the three angles of the KM triangle is consistent with 180. There are many more correlations between observables encoded in the KM matrix; those can be expressed through five KM triangles in addition to the one usually considered. To test the completeness of the KM description one has to obtain a highly overconstrained data set sensitive to effects with . Those fall into two categories: (i) Certain large angles agree to leading order only, yet differ in order in a characteristic way. (ii) Two observables angles are - for reasons specific to the KM ansatz - and thus generating an asymmetry of a few percent and of about 0.1 %, respectively. The former can be measured in {\em without} hadronic uncertainty, the latter in Cabibbo suppressed D decays. The intervention of New Physics could boost these effects by an order of magnitude. A special case is provided by vs. . Finally, \cp~asymmetries involving oscillations could reach observable levels only due to New Physics.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9909479,
title = {On the Other Five KM Triangles},
author = {I. I. Bigi and A. I. Sanda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9909479},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
20 pages, 1 embedded figure, LATEX; while the substance of this paper remains unchanged, the discussion has been extended in the interest of clarity and illustrated by one figure with 6 subfigures; some typos have been corrected and relevant papers added to the references