Angular analysis of the B0 → K*0e+e− decay in the low-q2 region

LHCb Collaboration; R. Aaij; B. Adeva; M. Adinolfi; A. Affolder; Z. Ajaltouni; S. Akar; J. Albrecht; F. Alessio; M. Alexander; S. Ali; G. Alkhazov; P. CAlvarez artelle; A. A. Alves; S. Amato; S. Amerio; Y. Amhis; L. An; L. Anderlini; J. Anderson; R. Andreassen; M. Andreotti; J. E. Andrews; R. B. Appleby; O. Aquines Gutierrez; F. Archilli; A. Artamonov; M. Artuso; E. Aslanides; G. Auriemma; M. Baalouch; S. Bachmann; J. J. Back; A. Badalov; C. Baesso; W. Baldini; R. J. Barlow; C. Barschel; S. Barsuk; W. Barter; V. Batozskaya; S. Bifani; N. Farley; P. Griffith; I. R. Kenyon; C. Lazzeroni; A. Mazurov; J. McCarthy; C. J. Parkinson; L. Pescatore; N. K. Watson

doi:10.1007/JHEP04(2015)064

Angular analysis of the B⁰ → K^*0e⁺e⁻ decay in the low-q² region

LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, S. Akar, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. CAlvarez artelle, A. A. Alves, S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, L. An, L. Anderlini, J. AndersonR. Andreassen, M. Andreotti, J. E. Andrews, R. B. Appleby, O. Aquines Gutierrez, F. Archilli, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, S. Bachmann, J. J. Back, A. Badalov, C. Baesso, W. Baldini, R. J. Barlow, C. Barschel, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, V. Batozskaya, S. Bifani, N. Farley, P. Griffith, I. R. Kenyon, C. Lazzeroni, A. Mazurov, J. McCarthy, C. J. Parkinson, L. Pescatore, N. K. Watson

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Abstract

An angular analysis of the B⁰ → K^*0e⁺e⁻ decay is performed using a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb⁻¹, collected by the LHCb experiment in pp collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV during 2011 and 2012. For the first time several observables are measured in the dielectron mass squared (q²) interval between 0.002 and 1.120 GeV²/c⁴. The angular observables F_L and A_T^Re which are related to the K^*0 polarisation and to the lepton forward-backward asymmetry, are measured to be F_L = 0.16 ± 0.06 ± 0.03 and A_T^Re = 0.10 ± 0.18 ± 0.05, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. The angular observables A_T⁽²⁾ and A_T^Im which are sensitive to the photon polarisation in this q² range, are found to be A_T⁽²⁾ = − 0.23 ± 0.23 ± 0.05 and A_T^Im = 0.14 ± 0.22 ± 0.05. The results are consistent with Standard Model predictions.

Original language	English
Article number	64
Number of pages	23
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2015
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2015)064
Publication status	Published - 14 Apr 2015

Keywords

B physics
Flavour Changing Neutral Currents
Hadron-Hadron Scattering
Polarization
Rare decay

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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LHCb Collaboration, Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Affolder, A., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Albrecht, J., Alessio, F., Alexander, M., Ali, S., Alkhazov, G., CAlvarez artelle, P., Alves, A. A., Amato, S., Amerio, S., Amhis, Y., An, L., Anderlini, L., ... Watson, N. K. (2015). Angular analysis of the B⁰ → K^*0e⁺e⁻ decay in the low-q² region. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015(4), Article 64. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2015)064

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