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# Effective lifetimes of Bs decays and their constraints on the B0s-Bs0 mixing parameters

(Impact Factor: 5.08). 09/2011; 71(11). DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1789-9

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Measurements of the effective lifetimes of B s -meson decays, which only require untagged rate analyses, allow us to probe the width difference Delta Gamma s and the CP-violating phase varphi s of B0s-bar{B}0s mixing. We point out that the dependence of the effective lifetime on non-linear terms in Delta Gamma s allows for a determination of varphi s and Delta Gamma s given a pair of B s decays into CP-even and CP-odd final states. Using recent lifetime measurements of B0sto K+K- and B0sto J/psi f0(980) decays, we illustrate this method and show how it complements the constraints in the varphi s -Delta Gamma s plane from other observables.

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• "Compared to the situation for B 0 decays, the decay-time distribution receives additional terms that do not vanish when integrated over the initial flavour of the B meson. This implies that information about CP violation parameters can be obtained from analyses that do not tag the initial flavour, through so-called effective lifetime measurements [34] [35]. Although analyses that include flavour tagging information will always be more sensitive, this method may still be of interest for analyses based on small event samples, since it is difficult to achieve high effective tagging efficiency at hadron collider experiments such as LHCb. "
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