Evidence for CP Violation in B{sup 0}{yields}J/{psi}{pi}{sup 0} Decays

Journal Article · Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2008 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.101.021801· OSTI ID:21134102

Aubert, B; Bona, M; Karyotakis, Y; Lees, J P; Poireau, V; Prencipe, E; Prudent, X; Tisserand, V ^[1]; Tico, J Garra; Grauges, E ^[2]; Lopez, L; Palano, A; Pappagallo, M ^[3]; Eigen, G; Stugu, B; Sun, L ^[4]; Abrams, G S; Battaglia, M; Brown, D N; Button-Shafer, J ^[5]

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1. Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, IN2P3/CNRS et Universite de Savoie, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux (France)
2. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
3. Universita di Bari, Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, 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 measurements of the branching fraction and time-dependent CP asymmetries in B{sup 0}{yields}J/{psi}{pi}{sup 0} decays based on 466x10{sup 6} {upsilon}(4S){yields}BB events collected with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory. We measure the CP asymmetry parameters S=-1.23{+-}0.21(stat){+-}0.04(syst) and C=-0.20{+-}0.19(stat){+-}0.03(syst), where the measured value of (S, C) is 4.0 standard deviations from (0, 0) including systematic uncertainties. The branching fraction is determined to be B(B{sup 0}{yields}J/{psi}{pi}{sup 0})=[1.69{+-}0.14(stat){+-}0.07(syst)]x10{sup -5}.

• OSTI ID: 21134102
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 101; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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CP INVARIANCE
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MESON FACTORIES
PARTICLE DECAY
PIONS NEUTRAL
STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER
TIME DEPENDENCE