31 March 2008 to 2 April 2008
Lancaster University
Europe/Zurich timezone

Study of direct CP violation in $Study of direct CP violation in B^{\pm} \to J/\psi K^{\pm}(\pi^{\pm})$ decays

31 Mar 2008, 16:48
12m
George Fox Lecture Theatre 1 (Lancaster University)

George Fox Lecture Theatre 1

Lancaster University

Heavy Flavour Physics and CP Violation Parallel 1B: Flavour Physics B-factory and Tevatron

Speaker

Mr Kostyantyn Holubyev (Lancaster University)

Description

We present a search for direct CP violation in $B^{\pm} \to J/\psi K^{\pm}(\pi^{\pm})$ decays. The event sample is selected from 2.8 fb$^{-1}$ of $p\bar{p}$ collisions collected by the D0 experiment in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The charge asymmetry $A_{CP}(B^+ \to J/\psi K^+) = +0.0075 \pm 0.0061$(stat.)$\pm 0.0027$(syst.) is obtained using a sample of approximately 40,000 $B^{\pm} \to J/\psi K^{\pm}$ decays. The achieved precision is of the same level as the expected deviation predicted by some extensions of the standard model. We also report the charge asymmetry $A_{CP}(B^+ \to J/\psi \pi^+) = -0.09 \pm 0.08$(stat.)$\pm 0.03$(syst.).
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Primary author

Mr Kostyantyn Holubyev (Lancaster University)

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