First Evidence for Direct CP Violation in Beauty to Charmonium Decays.



Aaij, R, Abdelmotteleb, ASW, Abellan Beteta, C, Abudinén, F, Ackernley, T ORCID: 0000-0002-5951-3498, Adefisoye, AA, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Adlarson, P, Agapopoulou, C
et al (show 1142 more authors) (2025) First Evidence for Direct CP Violation in Beauty to Charmonium Decays. Physical review letters, 134 (10). 101801-. ISSN 0031-9007, 1079-7114

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Abstract

The CP asymmetry and branching fraction of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa-suppressed decay B^{+}→J/ψπ^{+} are precisely measured relative to the favored decay B^{+}→J/ψK^{+} using a sample of proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4  fb^{-1} recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV during 2016-2018. The results of the CP asymmetry difference and branching fraction ratio are ΔA^{CP}≡A^{CP}(B^{+}→J/ψπ^{+})-A^{CP}(B^{+}→J/ψK^{+})=(1.29±0.49±0.08)×10^{-2}, R_{π/K}≡[B(B^{+}→J/ψπ^{+})/B(B^{+}→J/ψK^{+})]=(3.852±0.022±0.018)×10^{-2}, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. A combination with previous LHCb results based on data collected at 7 and 8 TeV in 2011 and 2012 yields ΔA^{CP}=(1.42±0.43±0.08)×10^{-2} and R_{π/K}=(3.846±0.018±0.018)×10^{-2}. The combined ΔA^{CP} value deviates from zero by 3.2 standard deviations, providing the first evidence for direct CP violation in the amplitudes of beauty decays to charmonium final states.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: LHCb Collaboration
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering
Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 25 Mar 2025 10:31
Last Modified: 02 Apr 2025 14:34
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.134.101801
Open Access URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.101801
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3190976