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CP Asymmetries in (Semi-)Inclusive B0 Decays

Isard Dunietz

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9806521

Abstract

It was recently pointed out that inclusive B0(t) decays could show CP violation. The totally inclusive asymmetry is expected to be tiny [O(10-3)] because of large cancellations among the asymmetries in the charmless, single charm and double charm final states. Enriching particular final state configurations could significantly increase the CP-asymmetry and observability. Such studies can extract fundamental CKM (Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa) parameters, and (perhaps) even Delta m(Bs). A superb vertex detector could see CP violation with 105 (106) flavor-tagged Bs (Bd) mesons within the CKM model. Because the effects could be significantly larger due to new physics, they should be searched for in existing or soon available data samples.

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