Study of T and CP violation in B^0-anti-B^0 mixing with inclusive dilepton events

TL;DR

This paper investigates T and CP violation in B0-anti-B0 mixing using inclusive dilepton events from the BABAR experiment, providing measurements that test fundamental symmetries in particle physics.

Contribution

It presents the first measurement of T and CP violation parameters in B0 mixing using inclusive dilepton events at BABAR, with results consistent with no violation.

Findings

Measured same-sign dilepton asymmetry of (0.5 ± 1.2 ± 1.4)%

Obtained a preliminary value for Re(ε_b) of (1.2 ± 2.9 ± 3.6) × 10^{-3}

Results are consistent with no T or CP violation in B0 mixing.

Abstract

We report a study of T and CP violation in $B^0$-$\bar B^0$ mixing using an inclusive dilepton sample collected by the BABAR experiment at the PEP-II $B$ Factory. The asymmetry between $\ell^+\ell^+$ and $\ell^-\ell^-$ allows us to compare the probabilities for $\bar B^0 \to B^0$ and $B^0 \to \bar B^0$ oscillations and thus probe T and CP invariance. A sample of 20,381 same-sign dilepton events is selected in the 1999--2000 data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.7 fb$^{-1}$ on the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance. We measure a same-sign dilepton asymmetry of $A_T=(0.5\pm 1.2\pm 1.4)%$; for the parameter $\epsilon_b$ representing T and CP violations in mixing, we obtain a preliminary result of $$ \frac{{\mathrm Re}(\epsilon_b)}{1+|\epsilon_b|^2} = (1.2\pm 2.9\pm 3.6) \times 10^{-3}. $$