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Title: Searching for new physics with CP violating B decays

Conference ·
OSTI ID:666126

The author explores the possibility of using CP violation in B decays to detect the presence of physics beyond the Standard Model. He first studies the possibility of new physics in the B-{anti B} mixing amplitude. He discusses a construction to extract information about the phase and magnitude of the new physics contribution, as well as the CKM parameters in a model independent way. He points out the difficulty of carrying through this program induced by hadronic uncertainties and discrete ambiguities, and suggests additional measurements to overcome these problems. He then studies the possibility of new physics contributions to the B meson decay amplitudes. The author emphasizes the sensitivity of the B {yields} {phi}K{sub S} decay to these new contributions, and explains how this sensitivity can be quantified using experimental data on SU(3) related decays. Finally, he analyzes a number of models where the B decay amplitudes are modified.

Research Organization:
Stanford Univ., Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, CA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
666126
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-7700; CONF-9708161-; ON: DE98059166; TRN: US200305%%1038
Resource Relation:
Conference: 25. SLAC summer institute on particle physics: physics of leptons, Stanford, CA (US), 08/04/1997--08/15/1997; Other Information: Supercedes report DE98059166; PBD: Nov 1997; PBD: 1 Nov 1997
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English