Improved Measurement of B{sup +}{yields}{rho}{sup +}{rho}{sup 0} and Determination of the Quark-Mixing Phase Angle {alpha}

Journal Article · Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2009 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.102.141802· OSTI ID:21180349

Aubert, B; Karyotakis, Y; Lees, J P; Poireau, V; Prencipe, E; Prudent, X; Tisserand, V ^[1]; Garra Tico, J; Grauges, E ^[2]; Lopez, L; Palano, A; Pappagallo, M ^[3]; Eigen, G; Stugu, B; Sun, L ^[4]; Battaglia, M; Brown, D N; Kerth, L T; Kolomensky, Yu G; Lynch, G ^[5]

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1. Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Universite de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux (France)
2. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
3. INFN Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
4. University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)
5. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

We present improved measurements of the branching fraction B, the longitudinal polarization fraction f{sub L}, and the direct CP asymmetry A{sub CP} in the B meson decay channel B{sup +}{yields}{rho}{sup +}{rho}{sup 0}. The data sample was collected with the BABAR detector at SLAC. The results are B(B{sup +}{yields}{rho}{sup +}{rho}{sup 0})=(23.7{+-}1.4{+-}1.4)x10{sup -6}, f{sub L}=0.950{+-}0.015{+-}0.006, and A{sub CP}=-0.054{+-}0.055{+-}0.010, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. Based on these results, we perform an isospin analysis and determine the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa phase angle {alpha}=arg(-V{sub td}V{sub tb}*/V{sub ud}V{sub ub}*) to be (92.4{sub -6.5}{sup +6.0}) deg.

• OSTI ID: 21180349
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 102, Issue 14; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.141802; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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