4–11 Jul 2012
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Australia/Melbourne timezone
ICHEP2012 - 36th International Conference for High Energy Physics

Studies of asymmetries in semileptonic B decays at LHCb

7 Jul 2012, 15:00
15m
Room 220 (Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre)

Room 220

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Melbourne Australia

Speaker

Prof. Marina Artuso (Syracuse University (US))

Description

During 2011 data taking, LHCb has recorded large samples of semileptonic B decays. These provide potential to study CP violation effects in all of the D0, B0 and B0s systems. For the former, the charge of the muon in B -> D0 μ ν X decays provides a novel procedure to tag the flavour of the neutral D meson at production, allowing competitive sensitivity for the measurement of the difference of CP violation asymmetries in D0 -> h+ h- (h= K,π). For the latter, integrated or time-dependent asymmetries between charge-conjugate final states probe CP violation in B0(s) mixing through the measurement of the parameter Afs (sometimes referred to as Asl). All of these measurements rely on data-driven techniques to obtain excellent control of systematic uncertainties. We present the status of the analyses.

Primary author

Prof. Marina Artuso (Syracuse University (US))

Presentation materials