Study of the $B^0\to \ddot{I}(770{)}^0{K}^{\ast }(892{)}^0$ decay with an amplitude analysis of $B^0\to (\ddot{I}{€}^{+}\ddot{I}{€}^{-})(K^{+}\ddot{I}{€}^{-})$ decays

Abstract

An amplitude analysis of $B^0\to (\ddot{I}{€}^{+}\ddot{I}{€}^{-})(K^{+}\ddot{I}{€}^{-})$ decays is performed in the two-body invariant mass regions $300<m(\ddot{I}{€}^{+}\ddot{I}{€}^{-})<1100$ MeV/$c^2$, accounting for the $\ddot{I}{}^0$, $\ddot{I}‰$, $f_0(500)$, $f_0(980)$ and $f_0(1370)$ resonances, and $750<m(K^{+}\ddot{I}{€}^{-})<1200$ MeV/$c^2$, which is dominated by the $K^{\ast }(892{)}^0$ meson. The analysis uses 3 fb${}^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The $CP$ averages and asymmetries are measured for the magnitudes and phase differences of the contributing amplitudes. The $CP$-averaged longitudinal polarisation fractions of the vector-vector modes are found to be ${\tilde{f}}_{\ddot{I}K^{\ast }}^0=0.164\pm 0.015\pm 0.022$ and ${\tilde{f}}_{\ddot{I}‰K^{\ast }}^0=0.68\pm 0.17\pm 0.16$, and their $CP$ asymmetries, ${\mathcal{A}}_{\ddot{I}K^{\ast }}^0=-0.62\pm 0.09\pm 0.09$ and ${\mathcal{A}}_{\ddot{I}‰K^{\ast }}^0=-0.13\pm 0.27\pm 0.13$, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic.

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