Flavor Tagging and CP-Violation Measurements at the Tevatron

Abstract

The CDF Collaboration has adapted several heavy flavor tagging techniques and employed them in analyses of time-dependent flavor asymmetries using data from the Tevatron Run I. The tagging algorithms were calibrated using low-P_t inclusive lepton and dilepton trigger data samples. The tagging techniques were applied to a sample of \sim 400 B^0_d/B-bar^0_d -> J/psi K^0_s decays and were used to measure the CP violation parameter, sin(2 Beta). Prospects for future improved measurements of the CP violation parameters at the Tevatron are briefly discussed.

arXiv commentTalk presented at the 17th International Workshop on Weak Interactions and Neutrinos (WIN 99), Cape Town, South Africa, January 24-30, 1999