Measurements of Branching Fractions and Time-dependent CP Violating Asymmetries in $B^{0} \to D^{(*)\pm}D^{\mp}$ Decays

ArXiv 1203.6647 (2012)

Authors:

Belle Collaboration, M R枚hrken, I Adachi, H Aihara, DM Asner, V Aulchenko, T Aushev, AM Bakich, M Barrett, K Belous, V Bhardwaj, B Bhuyan, M Bischofberger, A Bondar, G Bonvicini, A Bozek, M Bra膷ko, O Brovchenko, TE Browder, M-C Chang, A Chen, P Chen, BG Cheon, K Chilikin, I-S Cho, K Cho, Y Choi, J Dalseno, Z Dole啪al, Z Dr谩sal, A Drutskoy, S Eidelman, JE Fast, M Feindt, V Gaur, N Gabyshev, A Garmash, YM Goh, J Haba, H Hayashii, Y Horii, Y Hoshi, W-S Hou, YB Hsiung, HJ Hyun, T Iijima, A Ishikawa, R Itoh, M Iwabuchi, Y Iwasaki, T Julius, JH Kang, T Kawasaki, C Kiesling, HJ Kim, HO Kim, JB Kim, JH Kim, KT Kim, MJ Kim, YJ Kim, K Kinoshita, BR Ko, S Koblitz, P Kody拧, S Korpar, RT Kouzes, P Kri啪an, P Krokovny, B Kronenbitter, T Kuhr, T Kumita, Y-J Kwon, S-H Lee, J Li, Y Li, J Libby, C Liu, Y Liu, ZQ Liu, D Liventsev, R Louvot, K Miyabayashi, H Miyata, R Mizuk, GB Mohanty, A Moll, T Mori, N Muramatsu, Y Nagasaka, E Nakano, M Nakao, Z Natkaniec, S Nishida, O Nitoh, S Ogawa, T Ohshima, S Okuno, SL Olsen, H Ozaki, G Pakhlova, CW Park, H Park, HK Park, KS Park, TK Pedlar, R Pestotnik, M Petri膷, LE Piilonen, A Poluektov, M Prim, K Prothmann, M Ritter, S Ryu, H Sahoo, Y Sakai, T Sanuki, Y Sato, O Schneider, C Schwanda, AJ Schwartz, K Senyo, O Seon, ME Sevior, M Shapkin, CP Shen, T-A Shibata, J-G Shiu, B Shwartz, A Sibidanov, F Simon, JB Singh, P Smerkol, Y-S Sohn, A Sokolov, E Solovieva, S Stani膷, M Stari膷, K Sumisawa, T Sumiyoshi, K Trabelsi, M Uchida, S Uehara, Y Unno, S Uno, P Urquijo, P Vanhoefer, G Varner, KE Varvell, V Vorobyev, CH Wang, M-Z Wang, P Wang, M Watanabe, Y Watanabe, KM Williams, E Won, H Yamamoto, Y Yamashita, D Zander, ZP Zhang, V Zhilich, V Zhulanov, A Zupanc

Abstract:

We report measurements of branching fractions and time-dependent CP asymmetries in $B^{0} \to D^{+}D^{-}$ and $B^{0} \to D^{*\pm}D^{\mp}$ decays using a data sample that contains $(772 \pm 11)\times 10^6 B\bar{B}$ pairs collected at the $违(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^+ e^-$ collider. We determine the branching fractions to be $\mathcal{B}(B^{0} \to D^{+}D^{-})=(2.12 \pm 0.16 \pm 0.18)\times 10^{-4}$ and $\mathcal{B}(B^{0} \to D^{*\pm}D^{\mp}=(6.14 \pm 0.29 \pm 0.50)\times 10^{-4}$. We measure CP asymmetry parameters $\mathcal{S}_{D^{+}D^{-}} = -1.06_{-0.14}^{+0.21} \pm 0.08$ and $\mathcal{C}_{D^{+}D^{-}} = -0.43 \pm 0.16 \pm 0.05$ in $B^{0} \to D^{+}D^{-}$ and $\mathcal{A}_{D^{*}D} = +0.06 \pm 0.05 \pm 0.02$, $\mathcal{S}_{D^{*}D} = -0.78 \pm 0.15 \pm 0.05$, $\mathcal{C}_{D^{*}D} = -0.01 \pm 0.11 \pm 0.04$, $螖\mathcal{S}_{D^{*}D} = -0.13 \pm 0.15 \pm 0.04$ and $螖\mathcal{C}_{D^{*}D} = +0.12 \pm 0.11 \pm 0.03$ in $B^{0} \to D^{*\pm}D^{\mp}$, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. We exclude the conservation of CP symmetry in both decays at equal to or greater than $4蟽$ significance.

Erratum: Evidence for CP violation in time-integrated D0鈫抙 -h + decay rates (Physical Review Letters (2012) 108 (111602))

Physical Review Letters 108:12 (2012)

Authors:

R Aaij, C Abellan Beteta, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, Y Amhis, J Anderson, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, L Arrabito, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, S Bachmann, JJ Back, DS Bailey, V Balagura, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, A Bates, C Bauer, T Bauer, A Bay, I Bediaga, S Belogurov, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, M Benayoun, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, R Bernet, MO Bettler, M Van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, T Bird, A Bizzeti, PM Bj酶rnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, C Blanks, J Blouw, S Blusk, A Bobrov, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, TJV Bowcock, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J Van Den Brand, J Bressieux, D Brett, M Britsch, T Britton, NH Brook, H Brown, A B眉chler-Germann, I Burducea, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, M Cattaneo, C Cauet, M Charles, P Charpentier, N Chiapolini, K Ciba, X Cid Vidal

Measurement of the B s0-B -s0 oscillation frequency 未m s in B s0鈫扗 s-(3)蟺 decays

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 709:3 (2012) 177-184

Authors:

R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, Y Amhis, J Anderson, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, L Arrabito, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, S Bachmann, JJ Back, DS Bailey, V Balagura, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, A Bates, C Bauer, T Bauer, A Bay, I Bediaga, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, M Benayoun, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, R Bernet, MO Bettler, M van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, A Bizzeti, PM Bj酶rnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, C Blanks, J Blouw, S Blusk, A Bobrov, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, TJV Bowcock, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J van den Brand, J Bressieux, D Brett, S Brisbane, M Britsch, T Britton, NH Brook, H Brown, A B眉chler-Germann, I Burducea, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, JM Caicedo Carvajal, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, M Cattaneo, M Charles, P Charpentier, N Chiapolini, K Ciba, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, Clarke

Abstract:

The B s0-B -s0 oscillation frequency 未m s is measured with 36 pb -1 of data collected in pp collisions at s=7TeV by the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. A total of 1381 B s0鈫扗 s-蟺+ and B s0鈫扗 s-蟺 +蟺 -蟺 + signal decays are reconstructed, with average decay time resolutions of 44 fs and 36 fs, respectively. An oscillation signal with a statistical significance of 4.6蟽 is observed. The measured oscillation frequency is 未m s=17.63卤0.11(stat)卤0.02(syst)ps -1. 漏 2012 CERN.

Tarring the Koodankulam movement

Economic and Political Weekly 47:11 (2012) 5

Authors:

A Gopalakrishnan, A Basu, A Jesani, A Bhaduri, A Baviskar, A Chenoy, A Roy, A Nandy, D Dhanraj, D Nayyar, D Gupta, EAS Sharma, G Dietrich, H Mander, BG Kolse-Patil, H Suresh, K Roy, L Ramdas, SG Vombatkere, M John, M Kesavan, M Sharma, N Gooptu, N Sen, N Sundar, PM Bhargava, P Bhushan, R Guha, R Thapar, SP Shukla, S Hashmi, S Sarkar, UV Chandru, V Bal, V Bhagwat, Z Hasan

Studies of the decays D^0 \rightarrow K_S^0K^-\pi^+ and D^0 \rightarrow K_S^0K^+\pi^-

(2012)

Authors:

CLEO Collaboration, J Insler, H Muramatsu, CS Park, LJ Pearson, EH Thorndike, S Ricciardi, C Thomas, M Artuso, S Blusk, R Mountain, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, LM Zhang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, MJ Smith, P Zhou, T Gershon, P Naik, J Rademacker, KW Edwards, K Randrianarivony, RA Briere, H Vogel, PUE Onyisi, JL Rosner, JP Alexander, DG Cassel, S Das, R Ehrlich, L Gibbons, SW Gray, DL Hartill, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, X Shi, WM Sun, J Yelton, P Rubin, N Lowrey, S Mehrabyan, M Selen, J Wiss, J Libby, M Kornicer, RE Mitchell, D Besson, TK Pedlar, D Cronin-Hennessy, J Hietala, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, A Tomaradze, T Xiao, D Johnson, S Malde, L Martin, A Powell, G Wilkinson, DM Asner, G Tatishvili, JY Ge, DH Miller, IPJ Shipsey, B Xin, GS Adams, J Napolitano, KM Ecklund