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Penguin pollution in $\beta$ and $\beta_s$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-04-18 v1

Abstract

The mixing-induced CP asymmetries in BdJ/ψKSB_d \to J/\psi K_S and BsJ/ψϕB_s \to J/\psi \phi are essential to detect or constrain new physics in the Bd ⁣ ⁣BdB_d\! - \overline{\!B}{}_d and Bs ⁣ ⁣BsB_s\! - \overline{\!B}{}_s mixing amplitudes, respectively. To this end one must control the penguin contributions to the decay amplitudes, which affect the extraction of fundamental CP phases from the measured CP asymmetries. Although the "penguin pollution" is doubly Cabibbo-suppressed, it could compete in size with current experimental errors. In this talk I present a calculation of the penguin contributions treating QCD effects with soft-collinear factorisation and compare method and results with the alternative approach employing flavour-SU(3) symmetry. As a novel feature, I present results for the penguin pollution in bccdb\to c\overline c d modes.

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@article{arxiv.1704.04529,
  title  = {Penguin pollution in $\beta$ and $\beta_s$},
  author = {Ulrich Nierste},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.04529},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Talk at CKM2016, 28 November - 3 December 2016 Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India

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