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First measurement of the CP-violating phase in bs0→φφ decays

  • R. Aaijb(Author)
    ,
  • C. Abellan Betetaae(Author)
    ,
  • B. Adevaa(Author)
    ,
  • M. Adinolfiaj(Author)
    ,
  • C. Adroverv(Author)
    ,
  • A. Affolderp(Author)
  • aUniversity of Santiago de Compostela
    ,
  • bNational Institute for Subatomic Physics
    ,
  • cPontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
    ,
  • dIstituto Nazionale Di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati
    ,
  • eAlikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
    ,
  • fCERN
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Abstract

A first flavor-tagged measurement of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetry in Bs0→φφ decays is presented. In this decay channel, the CP-violating weak phase arises due to CP violation in the interference between Bs0-B̄s0 mixing and the b→ss̄s gluonic penguin decay amplitude. Using a sample of pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb -1 and collected at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the LHCb detector, 880 Bs0→φφ signal decays are obtained. The CP-violating phase is measured to be in the interval [-2.46,-0.76] rad at a 68% confidence level. The p value of the standard model prediction is 16%.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Article number

241802

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Physical Review Letters (Volume 110, Issue 24)

Publication milestones

  • Published
    - 12/06/2013

Publication status

Published
- 12/06/2013

ISSN

0031-9007

External Publication IDs

  • Scopus: 84879440718
  • WOS: 000320307400005

Funding Details

FundersFunding numbers
NSF
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STFC
PP/E000347/1, ST/H001085/2, ST/H001085/1, ST/K001256/1, ST/K001361/1, GRIDPP, ST/K001604/1, ST/F008015/1, ST/L00352X/1, ST/G005974/1, LHCb, ST/H00081X/2, ST/L001144/1, ST/H00081X/1, ST/K00073X/1, ST/K000748/1, ST/J005568/1, ST/K004646/1, ST/M000761/1, ST/H006737/1, ST/H001093/2, ST/M001431/1, ST/K001418/1, ST/K00140X/1, ST/M001474/1, LHCb Upgrades, ST/H001093/1, ST/J004332/1, ST/I505572/1, ST/K003410/1, ST/K00137X/1, ST/F007094/1, ST/L003392/1
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SNF
141096
SNF
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