Physics Letters B 736 (2014) 186–195
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Measurement of the CP-violating phase φ
s
in B
0
s
→ J/ψπ
+
π
−
decays
.LHCb Collaboration
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
16 May 2014
Received
in revised form 25 June 2014
Accepted
30 June 2014
Available
online 3 July 2014
Editor:
W.-D. Schlatter
The mixing-induced CP-violating phase φ
s
in B
0
s
and B
0
s
decays is measured using the J /ψπ
+
π
−
final
state in data, taken from 3fb
−1
of integrated luminosity, collected with the LHCb detector in 7 and 8TeV
centre-of-mass pp collisions at the LHC. A time-dependent flavour-tagged amplitude analysis, allowing for
direct CP violation, yields a value for the phase φ
s
= 70 ± 68 ± 8mrad. This result is consistent with the
Standard Model expectation and previous measurements.
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1. Introduction
One of the most sensitive ways of detecting the presence of
heretofore unseen particles or forces is through the observation
of effects they may have on CP-violating decays of neutral B
mesons
[1]. Measurements of CP violation through the interfer-
ence
of B
0
s
mixing and decay amplitudes are particularly sensitive
because the Standard Model (SM) prediction of the CP-violating
phase is very small and accurate in quark level b → ccs transitions,
with φ
SM
s
≡−2 arg(−
V
ts
V
∗
tb
V
cs
V
∗
cb
) =−36.3
+1.6
−1.5
mrad, ignoring sublead-
ing
corrections from Penguin amplitudes [2]. Initial measurements
of φ
s
at the Tevatron indicated possible large values inconsistent
with the SM expectation [3], while LHCb measurements using both
(−)
B
0
s
→ J/ψφ and
(−)
B
0
s
→ J/ψπ
+
π
−
decays from 1fb
−1
of inte-
grated
luminosity were consistent with the SM value [4,5], as were
more recent results from CDF [6], and ATLAS [7].
In this Letter, we present a new measurement of φ
s
in
(−)
B
0
s
→
J/ψ π
+
π
−
decays using data taken from an integrated luminos-
ity
of 3fb
−1
, obtained from pp collisions at the LHC. One-third of
the data was collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 7TeV, and
the remainder at 8TeV. In the previous study we used the re-
sult
of our amplitude analysis [8], which showed that the CP-odd
component of the decay was larger than 97.7% at 95% confidence
level (CL). Here we perform a more sophisticated amplitude anal-
ysis
[9], which uses an additional angular variable, and thereby
directly determines the CP-odd and CP-even components. Previ-
ously
it was found that five interfering π
+
π
−
states required to
describe the decay are: f
0
(980), f
0
(1500), f
0
(1790), f
2
(1270), and
f
2
(1525) [10]. In the same analysis, an alternative model includ-
ing
these states and a nonresonant J /ψπ
+
π
−
component was
also found to provide a good description of the data; the limit
on the CP-even component is unchanged. The J/ψ f
0
(980) final
state was suggested as being a useful final state for measuring
φ
s
as it is a CP-eigenstate [11] and inspired these studies. Sub-
sequently, it was suggested that the f
0
(980) resonance might be
formed of tetraquarks [12], and could then provide an additional
SM contribution to φ
s
beyond that originally expected. Studies of
B
0
→ J/ψ π
+
π
−
decays [13] indicate that the light scalar mesons
are familiar qq states [14], so this concern has been ameliorated.
The method used here allows the measurement of the CP-vio-
lating
phase φ
s
, without any assumption on the CP content, by
measuring simultaneously the CP-even and CP-odd decay ampli-
tudes
and φ
s
.
2. Decay rates for B
0
s
→ J /ψh
+
h
−
The time dependent formalism for decays of neutral B mesons
to a J /ψ meson, that subsequently decays into a μ
+
μ
−
pair, and
two pseudo-scalar particles h
+
h
−
is derived in Ref. [9]. The differ-
ential
decay rates for
(−)
B
0
s
→ J/ψh
+
h
−
, allowing for possible direct
CP violation, can be written in terms of the decay time t, and the
decay amplitudes A and A as [15]
Γ(t) = N e
−Γ
s
t
|
A|
2
+|A|
2
2
cosh
Γ
s
t
2
+
|
A|
2
−|A|
2
2
cos
(m
s
t) − Re
A
∗
A
sinh
Γ
s
t
2
− Im
A
∗
A
sin(m
s
t)
, (1)
Γ(t) =
p
q
2
N e
−Γ
s
t
|
A|
2
+|A|
2
2
cosh
Γ
s
t
2
−
|
A|
2
−|A|
2
2
cos
(m
s
t) − Re
A
∗
A
sinh
Γ
s
t
2
+ Im
A
∗
A
sin(m
s
t)
, (2)
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