Discrete Ambiguities In Extracting Weak Phases from B decays

Abstract

Phases of elements of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix, as obtained using decays of $B$ mesons to $π^+ π^-$, $π^\pm K^\mp$, and $π^+ K^0$ or $π^- \overline{K}^0$, are shown to have a class of discrete ambiguities. In most cases these can be eliminated using other information on CKM phases.