Momentum asymmetries as CP violating observables
arXiv:1206.1651 · doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2012)181
Abstract
Three body decays can exhibit CP violation that arises from interfering diagrams with different orderings of the final state particles. We construct several momentum asymmetry observables that are accessible in a hadron collider environment where some of the final state particles are not reconstructed and not all the kinematic information can be extracted. We discuss the complications that arise from the different possible production mechanisms of the decaying particle. Examples involving heavy neutralino decays in supersymmetric theories and heavy Majorana neutrino decays in Type-I seesaw models are examined.
20 pages, 9 figures. Clarifying comments and one reference added, matches published version
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