Measurement of Branching Fractions and CP-Violating Asymmetries in B0 to K0K0bar and B+ to K0barK+ Decays at the BaBar Experiment

Measurement of Branching Fractions and CP-Violating Asymmetries in B0 to K0K0bar and B+ to K0barK+ Decays at the BaBar Experiment
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2007
Genre:
ISBN:

Over the last few years, the B factories have established the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism of CP violation in the Standard Model through the study of the decays of B mesons. The focus of Belle and BaBar has now expanded to the search for signatures of new physics beyond the Standard Model, particularly through examination of flavor-changing neutral-current transitions, which proceed through diagrams involving virtual loops. These decays are suppressed in the Standard Model, increasing sensitivity to new-physics effects but decreasing branching fractions. Exploiting large and growing datasets, BaBar and Belle have made many measurements in loop decays where a b quark transitions to an s quark, observing hints of possible deviations from Standard Model expectations in CP-violating measurements.

MEASUREMENTS OF BRANCHING FRACTIONS AND CP VIOLATING ASYMMETRIES IN B0 ---] PI+ PI-, K+ PI-, K+ K- DECAYS.

MEASUREMENTS OF BRANCHING FRACTIONS AND CP VIOLATING ASYMMETRIES IN B0 ---] PI+ PI-, K+ PI-, K+ K- DECAYS.
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2003
Genre:
ISBN:

We present measurements of branching fractions and CP-violating asymmetries for neutral B meson decays to two-body final states of charged pions and kaons. The results are obtained from a data sample of about 88 million[Upsilon](4S)[yields] B[bar B] decays collected between 1999 and 2002 with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC. From a time-independent fit we measure the charge-averaged branching fractions[Beta](B[sup 0][yields][pi][sup+][pi][sup -])= (4.7[+-] 0.6[+-] 0.2) x 10[sup -6] and[Beta](B[sup 0][yields] K[sup+][pi][sup -])= (17.9[+-] 0.9[+-] 0.7) x 10[sup -6], where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic; the 90% confidence level upper limit[Beta](B[sup 0][yields] K[sup+]K[sup -])

Measurement of Branching Fractions and CP-Violating Asymmetries in B0 {u2192} K0$\bar{K}$0 and B+ to $\bar{K}$0K+ Decays at the BaBar Experiment

Measurement of Branching Fractions and CP-Violating Asymmetries in B0 {u2192} K0$\bar{K}$0 and B+ to $\bar{K}$0K+ Decays at the BaBar Experiment
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2007
Genre:
ISBN:

Over the last few years, the B factories have established the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism of CP violation in the Standard Model through the study of the decays of B mesons. The focus of Belle and BaBar has now expanded to the search for signatures of new physics beyond the Standard Model, particularly through examination of flavor-changing neutral-current transitions, which proceed through diagrams involving virtual loops. These decays are suppressed in the Standard Model, increasing sensitivity to new-physics effects but decreasing branching fractions. Exploiting large and growing datasets, BaBar and Belle have made many measurements in loop decays where a b quark transitions to an s quark, observing hints of possible deviations from Standard Model expectations in CP-violating measurements.

Measurement of Branching Fraction Ratios and CP Asymmetries in B -]D0 CPK Decays with the BABAR Detector

Measurement of Branching Fraction Ratios and CP Asymmetries in B -]D0 CPK Decays with the BABAR Detector
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN:

The primary goals of the BABAR experiment are the detection of CP violation (CPV) in the B meson system, the precise measurement of some of the elements of the CKM matrix and the measurement of the rates of rare B meson decays. At present, BABAR has achieved major successes: (1) the discovery, in neutral B decays, of direct and mixing-induced CP violation; (2) accurate measurements of the magnitudes of the CKM matrix elements.

Branching Fraction And Direct CP Violating Asymmetries in Charmless Twobody B Decays at BaBar

Branching Fraction And Direct CP Violating Asymmetries in Charmless Twobody B Decays at BaBar
Author: W. D. Hulsbergen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 4
Release: 2005
Genre:
ISBN:

We present preliminary measurements of branching fractions and direct CP violating asymmetries in charmless two-body B decays, obtained with the BABAR detector using a sample of 227M {Upsilon}(4S) {yields} B{bar B} decays. We report the first observation of B{sup 0} {yields} K{sup 0}{bar K}{sup 0} and the first observation of direct CP violation in B{sup 0} {yields} K{sup +}{pi}{sup -} decays.

Measurements of the Branching Fraction and CP-Violation Asymmetries in B0-]f0(980)Ks

Measurements of the Branching Fraction and CP-Violation Asymmetries in B0-]f0(980)Ks
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2004
Genre:
ISBN:

The authors present measurements of the branching fraction and CP-violating asymmetries in the decay B[sup 0] [yields] f[sub 0](980)K[sub S][sup 0]. The results are obtained from a data sample of 123 x 10[sup 6] [Upsilon](4S) [yields] B[bar B] decays. From a time-dependent maximum likelihood fit they measure the branching fraction [Beta](B[sup 0] [yields] f[sub 0](980)([yields][Pi][sup +][pi][sup 0])K[sup 0]) = (6.0 [+-] 0.9 [+-] 0.6 [+-] 1.2) x 10[sup -6], the mixing-induced CP violation parameter S = 1.62[sub -0.51][sup +0.56] [+-] 0.09 [+-] 0.04 and the direct CP violation parameter C = 0.27 [+-] 0.36 [+-] 0.10 [+-] 0.07, where the first errors are statistical, the second systematic and the third due to model uncertainties. They measure the f[sub 0](980) mass and width to be m[sub f[sub 0(980)]] = (980.6 [+-] 4.1 [+-] 0.5 [+-] 4.0) MeV/c[sup 2] and [Lambda][sub f[sub 0(980)]] = (43[sub -9][sup +12] [+-] 3 [+-] 9) MeV/c[sup 2], respectively.