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Visualisation of $CP$-violation effects in decay-time-dependent analyses of multibody $B$-meson decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-04-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Decay-time-dependent CPCP-violation effects in transitions of neutral BB mesons to CPCP-eigenstates can be visualised by oscillations in the asymmetry, as a function of decay time, between decay yields from mesons tagged as initially having B\overline{B} or BB flavour. Such images, for example for B0J/ψKS0B^0 \to J/\psi K^0_{\rm S} decays where the magnitude of the oscillation is proportional to sin(2β)\sin(2\beta) with β\beta being an angle of the Cabibbo--Kobayashi--Maskawa Unitarity Triangle, provide a straightforward illustration of the underlying physics. Until now there has been no comparable method to provide visualisation for the case of decays to multibody final states that are not CPCP-eigenstates, where interference between CPCP-even and -odd amplitudes provides additional physics sensitivity. A method is proposed to weight the data so that the terms of interest can be projected out and used to obtain asymmetries that visualise the relevant effects. Application of the weighting to Bs0B^0_s decays, where effects due to non-zero width difference are not negligible, provides a novel method to observe CPCP violation in interference between mixing and decay without tagging the production flavour.

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@article{arxiv.2401.13473,
  title  = {Visualisation of $CP$-violation effects in decay-time-dependent analyses of multibody $B$-meson decays},
  author = {Tim Gershon and Thomas Latham and Andy Morris and Wenbin Qian and Mark Whitehead and Ao Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.13473},
  year   = {2024}
}

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17 pages, 5 figures