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Measurement of the -violating phase in decays with the CDF II detector
Phys. Rev. D 85, 072002 – Published 23 April, 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.072002
Abstract
We present a measurement of the -violating parameter using approximately 6500 decays reconstructed with the CDF II detector in a sample of collisions at corresponding to integrated luminosity produced by the Tevatron collider at Fermilab. We find the -violating phase to be within the range at 68% confidence level where the coverage property of the quoted interval is guaranteed using a frequentist statistical analysis. This result is in agreement with the standard model expectation at the level of about one Gaussian standard deviation. We consider the inclusion of a potential -wave contribution to the final state which is found to be negligible over the mass interval . Assuming the standard model prediction for the -violating phase , we find the decay width difference to be . We also present the most precise measurements of the mean lifetime , the polarization fractions and , as well as the strong phase . In addition, we report an alternative Bayesian analysis that gives results consistent with the frequentist approach.
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