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Measurements of the angular distributions in the decays B→K(*)μ(+)μ(-) at CDF.

T Aaltonen, B Alvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, J A Appel, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, V E Barnes, B A Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, D Beecher, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, K R Bland, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, L Brigliadori, A Brisuda, C Bromberg, E Brucken, M Bucciantonio, J Budagov, H S Budd, S Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, S Cabrera, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, Y C Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, J P Chou, W H Chung, Y S Chung, C I Ciobanu, M A Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, G Compostella, M E Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, C A Cox, D J Cox, F Crescioli, C Cuenca Almenar, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, N d'Ascenzo, M Datta, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, G De Lorenzo, M Dell'Orso, C Deluca, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, F Devoto, M d'Errico, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, J R Dittmann, M D'Onofrio, S Donati, P Dong, T Dorigo, K Ebina, A Elagin, A Eppig, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, N Ershaidat, R Eusebi, H C Fang, S Farrington, M Feindt, J P Fernandez, C Ferrazza, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, M J Frank, M Franklin, J C Freeman, I Furic, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, J E Garcia, A F Garfinkel, P Garosi, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, C M Ginsburg, N Giokaris, P Giromini, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, D Goldin, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, A T Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Gresele, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, R C Group, J Guimaraes da Costa, Z Gunay-Unalan, C Haber, S R Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamaguchi, J Y Han, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, R F Harr, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, M Heck, J Heinrich, M Herndon, S Hewamanage, D Hidas, A Hocker, W Hopkins, D Horn, S Hou, R E Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, N Hussain, M Hussein, J Huston, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, E J Jeon, M K Jha, S Jindariani, W Johnson, M Jones, K K Joo, S Y Jun, T R Junk, T Kamon, P E Karchin, Y Kato, W Ketchum, J Keung, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, D H Kim, H S Kim, H W Kim, J E Kim, M J Kim, S B Kim, S H Kim, Y K Kim, N Kimura, S Klimenko, K Kondo, D J Kong, J Konigsberg, A Korytov, A V Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, N Krumnack, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kuhr, M Kurata, S Kwang, A T Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, R L Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, T LeCompte, E Lee, H S Lee, J S Lee, S W Lee, S Leo, S Leone, J D Lewis, 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Thompson, E Thomson, P Ttito-Guzmán, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, M Trovato, Y Tu, N Turini, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, A Varganov, E Vataga, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, M Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, M Vogel, G Volpi, P Wagner, R L Wagner, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, S M Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, M Weinberger, H Wenzel, W C Wester, B Whitehouse, D Whiteson, A B Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, F Wick, H H Williams, J S Wilson, P Wilson, B L Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, H Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, Z Wu, K Yamamoto, J Yamaoka, T Yang, U K Yang, Y C Yang, W-M Yao, G P Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, G B Yu, I Yu, S S Yu, J C Yun, A Zanetti, Y Zeng, S Zucchelli

Division of High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Physical Review Letters (impact factor: 7.37). 02/2012; 108(8):081807. pp.081807
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ABSTRACT We report an indirect search for nonstandard model physics using the flavor-changing neutral current decays B→K(*)μ(+)μ(-). We reconstruct the decays and measure their angular distributions, as a function of q(2)=M(μμ)(2)c(2), where M(μμ) is the dimuon mass, in pp¯ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.8 fb(-1). The transverse polarization asymmetry A(T)(2) and the time-reversal-odd charge-and-parity asymmetry A(im) are measured for the first time, together with the K* longitudinal polarization fraction F(L) and the muon forward-backward asymmetry A(FB) for the decays B(0)→K(*0)μ(+)μ(-) and B(+)→K(*+)μ(+)μ(-). The B→K*μ(+)μ(-) forward-backward asymmetry in the most sensitive kinematic regime, 1≤q(2)<6 GeV(2)/c(2), is measured to be A(FB)=0.29(-0.23)(+0.20)(stat)±0.07(syst), the most precise result to date. No deviations from the standard model predictions are observed.

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Keywords

deviations
 
dimuon mass
 
integrated luminosity
 
K* longitudinal polarization fraction F(L)
 
muon forward-backward asymmetry A(FB)
 
nonstandard model physics
 
pp¯ collisions
 
precise result
 
sensitive kinematic regime
 
time-reversal-odd charge-and-parity asymmetry A(im)
 

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