A Study of Time-Dependent CP-Violating Asymmetries and Flavor Oscillations in Neutral B Decays at the Upsilon(4S)

Abstract

We present a measurement of time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in neutral B meson decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The data sample consists of 29.7 ${\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$ recorded at the ${\rm Y}(4S)$ resonance and 3.9 ${\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$ off-resonance. One of the neutral B mesons, which are produced in pairs at the ${\rm Y}(4S)$, is fully reconstructed in the CP decay modes $J/\psi K_S^0$, $\psi (2S)K_S^0$, ${\chi }_{c1}{K}_S^0$, $J/\psi K^{\ast 0}$ ($K^{\ast 0}\to K_S^0{\pi }^0$) and $J/\psi K_L^0$, or in flavor-eigenstate modes involving $D^{(\ast )}\pi /\rho /a_1$ and $J/\psi K^{\ast 0}$ ($K^{\ast 0}\to K^{+}{\pi }^{-}$). The flavor of the other neutral B meson is tagged at the time of its decay, mainly with the charge of identified leptons and kaons. The proper time elapsed between the decays is determined by measuring the distance between the decay vertices. A maximum-likelihood fit to this flavor eigenstate sample finds $\Delta m_d=0.516\pm 0.016(\mathrm{stat})\pm 0.010(\mathrm{syst}){\mathrm{ps}}^{-1}$. The value of the asymmetry amplitude $\sin 2\beta$ is determined from a simultaneous maximum-likelihood fit to the time-difference distribution of the flavor-eigenstate sample and about 642 tagged $B^0$ decays in the CP-eigenstate modes. We find $\sin 2\beta =0.59\pm 0.14(\mathrm{stat})\pm 0.05(\mathrm{syst})$, demonstrating that CP violation exists in the neutral B meson system. (abridged)

58 pages, 35 figures, submitted to Physical Review D

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