A measurement of direct CP asymmetry is performed using 6fb-1 of p$\bar{p}$ collisions at √s = 1.96TeV from the CDF detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Approximately 80,000 B- → J/ K- (and charge conjugate) events were selected on the dimuon trigger and the yields were determined using a simultaneous mass and lifetime fit. After corrections, a measurement of ACP = 0.0034 ± 0.0043(stat.) ± 0.0060(syst.) is obtained, which is consistent with the SM prediction and previous measurements at DØ and the B factories.
The phenomenon of CP-violation in weak interactions, discovered in 1964 in decays of neutral kaons, receives a simple and elegant explanation in the Standard Model with three generations of quarks. Indeed, in this model the common source of CP-asymmetry phenomena is represented by a simple complex phase in the unitary matrix (the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix) describing the charged weak couplings of the quarks. This simple scheme has never received an accurate validation, because the phenomenological parameters determined from measurements of CP-violation in kaons decays are related to the fundamental parameters of the theory in a complex way, sensitive to large theoretical uncertainties. On the contrary, decays of neutral B mesons like B{sup 0} {yields} J/{psi} K{sub S}{sup 0} represent a unique laboratory to test the predictions of the theory because they are expected to show significant CP-violation effects, the magnitude of which is cleanly related to the Standard Model parameters. Thus experimental facilities have been built with the purpose of performing extensive studies of B decays. The BABAR experiment is operating at one of these facilities, at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. It is collecting data at the PEP-II asymmetric e{sup +}e{sup -} collider (E{sub e{sup -}} = 9.0 GeV; E{sub e{sup +}} = 3.1 GeV), a high-luminosity accelerator machine (L = 3 x 10{sup 33} cm{sup -2}s{sup -1}). The center-of-mass energy (10.58 GeV) of the e{sup +}e{sup -} system at PEP-II allows resonant production of the {Upsilon}(4S), a b{bar b} bound state, which decays almost exclusively in a B{sup 0}{bar B}{sup 0} or a B{sup +}B{sup -} pair. A high-acceptance detector, projected and built by a wide international collaboration, detects and characterizes the decay products of the B mesons. From the analysis of the data collected during the first two years of operation, the BABAR collaboration has established CP-violation in decays of neutral B mesons at the 4.1{sigma} level. Besides the primary goal of CP-violation studies, the high luminosity of PEP-II, coupled with the high acceptance of the BABAR detector, allows competitive studies of the properties of a wide set of B decay modes. In particular, measurements of non-leptonic decays are extremely useful to understand the dynamics of the non-perturbative strong interactions involved in these processes. In this thesis a study of the non-leptonic decay mode B{sup {+-}} {yields} J/{psi}{pi}{sup {+-}} is presented.
This thesis reports on the final measurement of the flavor-mixing phase in decays of strange-bottom mesons (B_s) into J/psi and phi mesons performed in high-energy proton-antiproton collisions recorded by the Collider Experiment at Fermilab. Interference occurs between direct decays and decays following virtual particle-antiparticle transitions (B_s-antiB_s). The phase difference between transition amplitudes (“mixing phase”) is observable and extremely sensitive to contributions from non-standard-model particles or interactions that may be very hard to detect otherwise – a fact that makes the precise measurement of the B_s mixing phase one of the most important goals of particle physics. The results presented include a precise determination of the mixing phase and a suite of other important supplementary results. All measurements are among the most precise available from a single experiment and provide significantly improved constraints on the phenomenology of new particles and interactions.
The authors present updated measurements of time-dependent Cp asymmetries in fully reconstructed neutral B decays containing a charmonium meson. The measurements reported here use a data sample of (465 ± 5) x 106 [Upsilon](4S) 2!B{bar B} decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric energy ee− storage rings operating at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The time-dependent CP asymmetry parameters measured from J/[psi] K{sub S}°, J/[psi]K{sub L}°, [psi](2S)K{sub S}°, [eta]{sub c}K{sub S}°, [chi]{sub c1}K{sub S}° and J/[psi] K*(892)° decays are: C{sub f} = 0.024 ± 0.020(stat) ± 0.016(syst) and -[eta]{sub f}S{sub f} = 0.687 ± 0.028(stat) ± 0.012(syst).
We present updated measurements of time-dependent CP asymmetries in fully reconstructed neutral B decays containing a charmonium meson. The measurements reported here use a data sample of (465 ± 5) x 106 [Upsilon](4S) → B{bar B} decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B factory. The time-dependent CP asymmetry parameters measured from J/[psi]K{sub S}°, J/[psi]K{sub L}°, [psi](2S)K{sub S}°, [chi]{sub c1}K{sub S}°, [eta]{sub c}K{sub S}°, and J/[psi]K*° decays are: (1) C{sub f} = 0.026 ± 0.020(stat) ± 0.016(syst); and (2) S{sub f} = 0.691 ± 0.029(stat) ± 0.014(syst).
We describe a measurement of the direct CP asymmetry between inclusive b [yields] s[gamma] and [bar b] [yields] [bar s][gamma] decays. This asymmetry is expected to be less than 0.01 in the Standard Model, but could be enhanced up to about 0.10 by new physics contributions. We use a sample of 89 million B[bar B] pairs recorded with the BABAR detector at PEP-II, from which we reconstruct a set of 12 exclusive b [yields] s[gamma] final states containing one charged or neutral kaon and one to three pions. We measure an asymmetry of A[sub CP] (b [yields] s[gamma]) = 0.025 [+-] 0.050(stat.) [+-] 0.015(syst.), corresponding to an allowed range of -0.06
This paper reports the measurement of J/psi meson production in proton-proton (pp) and proton-lead (pPb) collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The data samples used in the analysis correspond to integrated luminosities of 28 inverse picobarns and 35 inverse nanobarns for pp and pPb collisions, respectively. Prompt and nonprompt J/psi mesons, the latter issuing from the decay of B mesons, are measured in their dimuon decay channels. Differential cross sections are measured in the transverse momentum range of 2
The BABAR experiment at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory provides an excellent environment to study CP violation in B decays. A measurement of time-dependent CP-violating asymmetry in neutral B decays to charmonium states, in particular B0, B¯ 0 → J/psi K0L , is presented here. J/psi K0L is the most compelling CP-even final state used to measure the Unitarity Triangle parameter sin2beta at BABAR. The measurements reported here use a data sample of (465 +/- 5) million Upsilon(4 S) → BB¯ decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric energy e +e- storage operating at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The time-dependent CP asymmetry parameters measured for the B0 → J/psi K0L decay are: C = -0.033 +/- 0.050(stat) +/- 0.027(syst) and S = -0.694 +/- 0.061(stat) +/- 0.031(syst). These results are in good agreement with the Standard Model predictions.
