Measurement of Polarization and Search for CP Violation in Bs0→ϕϕ Decays

• Main Authors: Bauer, Gerry P. (Contributor), Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo (Contributor), Goncharov, Maxim (Contributor), Makhoul, K. (Contributor), Paus, Christoph M. E. (Contributor)
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science (Contributor)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Physical Society (APS), 2012-02-24T16:55:27Z.
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 We present the first measurement of polarization and CP-violating asymmetries in a B[subscript s][superscript 0] decay into two light vector mesons, B[subscript s][superscript 0]→ϕϕ, and an improved determination of its branching ratio using 295 decays reconstructed in a data sample corresponding to 2.9  fb[superscript -1] of integrated luminosity collected by the CDF experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The fraction of longitudinal polarization is determined to be f[subscript L]=0.348±0.041(stat)±0.021(syst), and the branching ratio B(B[subscript s][superscript 0]→ϕϕ)=[2.32±0.18(stat)±0.82(syst)]×10[superscript -5]. Asymmetries of decay angle distributions sensitive to CP violation are measured to be A[subscript u]=-0.007±0.064(stat)±0.018(syst) and A[subscript v]=-0.120±0.064(stat)±0.016(syst).