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On the Other Five KM Triangles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2

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^{\circ}. 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 O(λ2){\cal O}(\lambda ^2) effects with λ=sinθC\lambda = \sin \theta_C. Those fall into two categories: (i) Certain large angles agree to leading order only, yet differ in order λ2\lambda ^2 in a characteristic way. (ii) Two observables angles are - for reasons specific to the KM ansatz - O(λ2){\cal O}(\lambda ^2) and O(λ4){\cal O}(\lambda ^4) thus generating an asymmetry of a few percent and of about 0.1 %, respectively. The former can be measured in Bsψη,ψϕB_s \to \psi \eta, \psi \phi {\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 D+KS,Lπ+D^+ \to K_{S,L}\pi ^+ vs. DKS,LπD^- \to K_{S,L}\pi ^-. Finally, \cp~asymmetries involving D0Dˉ0D^0 - \bar D^0 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