CP Violation in {B_s}^0 -> J/psi.phi Decays
Author | : Sabato Leo |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2014-07-24 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783319079295 |
ISBN-13 | : 3319079298 |
Rating | : 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Download or read book CP Violation in {B_s}^0 -> J/psi.phi Decays written by Sabato Leo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis reports on the final measurement of the flavor-mixing phase in decays of strange-bottom mesons (B_s) into J/psi and phi mesons performed in high-energy proton-antiproton collisions recorded by the Collider Experiment at Fermilab. Interference occurs between direct decays and decays following virtual particle-antiparticle transitions (B_s-antiB_s). The phase difference between transition amplitudes (“mixing phase”) is observable and extremely sensitive to contributions from non-standard-model particles or interactions that may be very hard to detect otherwise – a fact that makes the precise measurement of the B_s mixing phase one of the most important goals of particle physics. The results presented include a precise determination of the mixing phase and a suite of other important supplementary results. All measurements are among the most precise available from a single experiment and provide significantly improved constraints on the phenomenology of new particles and interactions.