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    Amplitude Analysis of the B±φK*(892)± Decay

    B. Aubert1, M. Bona1, D. Boutigny1, Y. Karyotakis1, J. P. Lees1, V. Poireau1, X. Prudent1, V. Tisserand1, A. Zghiche1 et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

    A. Zghiche1, J. Garra Tico2, E. Grauges2, L. Lopez3, A. Palano3, G. Eigen4, B. Stugu4, L. Sun4, G. S. Abrams5, M. Battaglia5, D. N. Brown5, J. Button-Shafer5, R. N. Cahn5, Y. Groysman5, R. G. Jacobsen5, J. A. Kadyk5, L. T. Kerth5, Yu. G. Kolomensky5, G. Kukartsev5, D. Lopes Pegna5, G. Lynch5, L. M. Mir5, T. J. Orimoto5, M. T. Ronan5,*, K. Tackmann5, W. A. Wenzel5, P. del Amo Sanchez6, C. M. Hawkes6, A. T. Watson6, T. Held7, H. Koch7, B. Lewandowski7, M. Pelizaeus7, T. Schroeder7, M. Steinke7, D. Walker8, D. J. Asgeirsson9, T. Cuhadar-Donszelmann9, B. G. Fulsom9, C. Hearty9, T. S. Mattison9, J. A. McKenna9, A. Khan10, M. Saleem10, L. Teodorescu10, V. E. Blinov11, A. D. Bukin11, V. P. Druzhinin11, V. B. Golubev11, A. P. Onuchin11, S. I. Serednyakov11, Yu. I. Skovpen11, E. P. Solodov11, K. Yu. Todyshev11, M. Bondioli12, S. Curry12, I. Eschrich12, D. Kirkby12, A. J. Lankford12, P. Lund12, M. Mandelkern12, E. C. Martin12, D. P. Stoker12, S. Abachi13, C. Buchanan13, S. D. Foulkes14, J. 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    • 1Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, IN2P3/CNRS et Université de Savoie, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux, France
    • 2Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
    • 3Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Università di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
    • 4Institute of Physics, University of Bergen, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
    • 5Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    • 6University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
    • 7Institut für Experimentalphysik 1, Ruhr Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
    • 8University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, United Kingdom
    • 9University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z1
    • 10Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, United Kingdom
    • 11Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
    • 12University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA
    • 13University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
    • 14University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
    • 15University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
    • 16University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
    • 17Institute for Particle Physics, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
    • 18California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
    • 19University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA
    • 20University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
    • 21Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
    • 22Institut für Physik, Universität Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
    • 23Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Technische Universität Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
    • 24Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
    • 25University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom
    • 26Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Università di Ferrara, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
    • 27Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell’INFN, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
    • 28Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
    • 29Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    • 30Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 12, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
    • 31Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
    • 32University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
    • 33Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3160, USA
    • 34Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
    • 35Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, Universität Karlsruhe, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
    • 36Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire, IN2P3/CNRS et Université Paris-Sud 11, Centre Scientifique d’Orsay, B. P. 34, F-91898 ORSAY Cedex, France
    • 37Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
    • 38University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom
    • 39Queen Mary, University of London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom
    • 40University of London, Royal Holloway, and Bedford New College, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom
    • 41University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA
    • 42University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
    • 43University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
    • 44University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    • 45Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    • 46McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2T8
    • 47Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Università di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
    • 48University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA
    • 49Université de Montréal, Physique des Particules, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7
    • 50Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075, USA
    • 51Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche and INFN, Università di Napoli Federico II, I-80126, Napoli, Italy
    • 52NIKHEF, National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • 53University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
    • 54Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
    • 55University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
    • 56Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Università di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
    • 57Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies, IN2P3/CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Université Denis Diderot-Paris7, F-75252 Paris, France
    • 58University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
    • 59Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Università di Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
    • 60Dipartimento di Fisica, Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN, Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
    • 61Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas 77446, USA
    • 62Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
    • 63Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Università di Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Roma, Italy
    • 64Universität Rostock, D-18051 Rostock, Germany
    • 65Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
    • 66DSM/Dapnia, CEA/Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
    • 67University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
    • 68Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, California 94309, USA
    • 69Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4060, USA
    • 70State University of New York, Albany, New York 12222, USA
    • 71University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
    • 72University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
    • 73University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75083, USA
    • 74Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale and INFN, Università di Torino, I-10125 Torino, Italy
    • 75Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Università di Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
    • 76IFIC, Universitat de Valencia-CSIC, E-46071 Valencia, Spain
    • 77University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 3P6
    • 78Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
    • 79University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    • 80Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA

    • *Deceased.
    • Also with Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
    • Also with Università della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy.
    • §Also with Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain.
    • Also with IPPP, Physics Department, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom.

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 201802 – Published 15 November, 2007

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.201802

    Abstract

    We perform an amplitude analysis of B±φ(1020)K*(892)± decay with a sample of about 384×106 BB¯ pairs recorded with the BABAR detector. Overall, twelve parameters are measured, including the fractions of longitudinal fL and parity-odd transverse f amplitudes, branching fraction, strong phases, and six parameters sensitive to CP violation. We use the dependence on the Kπ invariant mass of the interference between the JP=1 and 0+ Kπ components to resolve the discrete ambiguity in the determination of the strong and weak phases. Our measurements of fL=0.49±0.05±0.03, f=0.21±0.05±0.02, and the strong phases point to the presence of a substantial helicity-plus amplitude from a presently unknown source.

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