Abstract
A combination of three LHCb measurements of the CKM angle γ is presented. The decays B ±→DK ± and B ±→Dπ ± are used, where D denotes an admixture of D 0 and D-0 mesons, decaying into K +K -, π +π -, K ±π ∓, K ±π ∓π ±π ∓, KS0π+π-, or KS0K+K- final states. All measurements use a dataset corresponding to 1.0 fb -1 of integrated luminosity. Combining results from B ±→DK ± decays alone a best-fit value of γ=72.0° is found, and confidence intervals are setγ∈[56.4,86.7]°at 68% CL,γ∈[42.6,99.6]°at 95% CL. The best-fit value of γ found from a combination of results from B ±→Dπ ± decays alone, is γ=18.9°, and the confidence intervalsγ∈[7.4,99.2]°∪[167.9,176.4]°at 68% CL are set, without constraint at 95% CL. The combination of results from B ±→DK ± and B ±→Dπ ± decays gives a best-fit value of γ=72.6° and the confidence intervalsγ∈[55.4,82.3]°at 68% CL,γ∈[40.2,92.7]°at 95% CL are set. All values are expressed modulo 180°, and are obtained taking into account the effect of D 0-D-0 mixing.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 151-163 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics |
Volume | 726 |
Issue number | 1-3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2013 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES , CNPq , FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 and Region Auvergne (France); BMBF , DFG , HGF and MPG (Germany); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); FOM and NWO (The Netherlands); SCSR (Poland); ANCS/IFA (Romania); MinES , Rosatom , RFBR and NRC “Kurchatov Institute” (Russia); MinECo , XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NAS Ukraine (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (USA). We also acknowledge the support received from the ERC under FP7. The Tier1 computing centres are supported by IN2P3 (France), KIT and BMBF (Germany), INFN (Italy), NWO and SURF (The Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom). We are thankful for the computing resources put at our disposal by Yandex LLC (Russia), as well as to the communities behind the multiple open source software packages that we depend on.
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics