EP Seminar

Exploring Penguins: Gluonic Loops at BaBar

by Aaron Roodman (SLAC)

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500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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Description
With over 200 million B meson pairs collected, the BaBar experiment at SLAC has now detected several new manifestations of CP violation. One recurring theme in BaBar's study of symmetries in the weak interaction is the continual struggle to disentangle strong interaction effects.

In this talk, we will cover several rare hadronic B decays such as B->pipi, B->Kpi, B->rhorho, and B->phi Ks. We will see how in these decays the interplay of gluonic penguin amplitudes with other amplitudes is critical towards an understanding of the weak interaction effects under study. In addition, decays dominated by gluonic penguin amplitudes are the ideal place to search for additional phases from New Physics. Both a comparison with results from Belle, and comments on the future of BaBar's study of CP violation in these rare decays will be made.

Organiser(s): Rolf Landua / PH-EP Unit

Note: Tea and Coffee will be served at 16:00 hrs