- Accepted Paper
Precise measurement of the CKM angle with a novel approach
Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 13 August, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/bb61-xw2f
Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 13 August, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/bb61-xw2f
A measurement of the CKM angle is performed by applying a novel, unbinned, model-independent approach to datasets of electron-positron collisions collected by the BESIII experiment and proton-proton collisions by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 8 fb and 9 fb, respectively. The -violating phase is determined from ${B^{\pm}\rightarrow D(\rightarrow K^{0}_{\rm S} h^{\prime+}h^{\prime-}) h^{\pm}}$ decays in LHCb data, where is either a pion or kaon, while the corresponding strong-phase parameters are measured using doubly tagged ${D\rightarrow K_{\rm S/L}^0 h^{\prime+} h^{\prime-}}$ decays in the quantum-correlated system present in BESIII data. A joint fit to both datasets, which allows for a simultaneous determination of the associated -violating observables and strong-phase parameters, yields . The result is the most precise to date and consistent with previous measurements and world averages.
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