Measurement of the CKM angle γ using the B± → D*h± channels

LHCb Collaboration, Nigel Watson, Jonathan Plews, Niladribihari Sahoo, Paul Swallow, Naomi Cooke, Simone Bifani, Daniel Thompson

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Abstract

A measurement of the CP-violating observables from B±→DK± and B±→Dπ± decays is presented, where D(D) is an admixture of D∗0 and D¯∗0 (D0 and D¯0) states and is reconstructed through the decay chains D→Dπ0/γ and D→K0Sπ+π/K0SK+K. The measurement is performed by analysing the signal yield variation across the D decay phase space and is independent of any amplitude model. The data sample used was collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions and corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 9 fb−1 at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV. The CKM angle γ is determined to be (69+13−14)∘ using the measured CP-violating observables. The hadronic parameters rD∗K±B,rD∗π±BD∗K±BD∗π±B, which are the ratios and strong phase differences between favoured and suppressed B± decays, are also reported.
Original languageEnglish
Article number13
Number of pages32
JournalJHEP
Volume2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2023

Bibliographical note

We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); MOST and NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); NWO (Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MCID/IFA (Romania); MICINN (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE NP and NSF (U.S.A.). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), Polish WLCG (Poland) and NERSC (U.S.A.). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have received support from ARC and ARDC (Australia); Minciencias (Colombia); AvH Foundation (Germany); EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, ERC and NextGenerationEU (European Union); A*MIDEX, ANR, IPhU and Labex P2IO, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France); Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, CAS CCEPP, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and Sci. & Tech. Program of Guangzhou (China); GVA, XuntaGal, GENCAT, Inditex, InTalent and Prog. Atracción Talento, CM (Spain); SRC (Sweden); the Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Society and UKRI (United Kingdom).

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