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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 121801 (2007) [7 pages]

Lifetime Difference and CP-Violating Phase in the Bs0 System

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V. M. Abazov et al. D0 Collaboration
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Received 10 January 2007; published 21 March 2007

From an analysis of the decay Bs0J/ψϕ, we obtain the width difference between the light and heavy mass eigenstates ΔΓ≡(ΓL-ΓH)=0.17±0.09(stat)±0.02(syst)  ps-1 and the CP-violating phase ϕs=-0.79±0.56(stat)-0.01+0.14(syst). Under the hypothesis of no CP violation (ϕs≡0), we obtain 1/Γ̅ = τ̅ (Bs0)=1.52±0.08(stat)-0.03+0.01(syst)  ps and ΔΓ=0.12-0.10+0.08(stat)±0.02(syst)  ps-1. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of about 1.1  fb-1 accumulated with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. This is the first direct measurement of the CP-violating mixing phase in the Bs0 system.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.121801
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.121801
PACS:
13.25.Hw, 11.30.Er, 14.40.Nd