Indirect CP violation and implications for D{sup 0}-D{sup 0} and B{sub s}-B{sub s} mixing

Journal Article · Thu Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 2009 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.80.076008· OSTI ID:21325289

Kagan, Alexander L; Sokoloff, Michael D ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221 (United States)

The two kinds of indirect CP violation in neutral meson systems are related, in the absence of new weak phases in decay. The result is a model-independent expression relating CP violation in mixing, CP violation in the interference of decays with and without mixing, and the meson mass and width differences. It relates the semileptonic and time-dependent CP asymmetries, and pairs of time-dependent CP asymmetries in D{sup 0} decays to non-CP eigenstates. CP violation in the interference of decays with and without mixing is related to the mixing parameters of relevance to model building: the off-diagonal mixing matrix elements |M{sub 12}|, |{gamma}{sub 12}|, and {phi}{sub 12}{identical_to}arg(M{sub 12}/{gamma}{sub 12}). Incorporating this relation into a fit to the D{sup 0}-D{sup 0} mixing data implies a level of sensitivity to |{phi}{sub 12}{sup D}| of 0.10 (rad) at 1{sigma}. The formalism is extended to include new weak phases in decay, and in {gamma}{sub 12}. The phases are highly constrained by direct CP violation measurements. Consequently, the bounds on |{phi}{sub 12}{sup D}| are not significantly altered, and the effects of new weak phases in decay could be difficult to observe at a high luminosity flavor factory (D{sup 0}) or at the LHC (B{sub s}) via violations of the above relations, unlike in direct CP violation.

• OSTI ID: 21325289
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 80; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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