Speaker
Edmund Smith
(University of Oxford (GB))
Description
The decay B0 -> D K*0 and the charge conjugate mode are studied using 1.0fb-1 of pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at sqrt(s) = 7TeV in 2011.
The CP asymmetry between the B0 and B0bar decay rates, is found to be A_d_KK = -0.45 +- 0.23 +- 0.02, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic.
The ratio of the B-flavour averaged decay rates in D decays to CP and non-CP eigenstates is measured to be
R_d_KK = 1.36 (+0.37) (-0.32) +- 0.07.
These two measurements represent an important step towards constraining the CKM angle gamma from B0 -> D0 K*0 decays. This and the prospects for the 2012 dataset are discussed.
Author
Edmund Smith
(University of Oxford (GB))
