101. Observation of Time-Reversal Violation in the B0 Meson System
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Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Tico, J Garra, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Stugu, B, Brown, DN, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Lynch, G, Koch, H, Schroeder, T, Asgeirsson, DJ, Hearty, C, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, So, RY, Khan, A, Blinov, VE, Buzykaev, AR, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Kravchenko, EA, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Yushkov, AN, Bondioli, M, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Mandelkern, M, Atmacan, H, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Vitug, GM, Campagnari, C, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, West, CA, Eisner, AM, Kroseberg, J, Lockman, WS, Martinez, AJ, Schumm, BA, Seiden, A, Chao, DS, Cheng, CH, Echenard, B, Flood, KT, Hitlin, DG, Ongmongkolkul, P, Porter, FC, Rakitin, AY, Andreassen, R, Huard, Z, Meadows, BT, Sokoloff, MD, Sun, L, Bloom, PC, Ford, WT, Gaz, A, Nauenberg, U, Smith, JG, Wagner, SR, Ayad, R, Toki, WH, Spaan, B, Schubert, KR, Schwierz, R, Bernard, D, Verderi, M, Clark, PJ, Playfer, S, Bettoni, D, Bozzi, C, Calabrese, R, Cibinetto, G, Fioravanti, E, Garzia, I, Luppi, E, Munerato, M, Piemontese, L, Santoro, V, Baldini-Ferroli, R, Calcaterra, A, de Sangro, R, Finocchiaro, G, Patteri, P, Peruzzi, IM, Piccolo, M, Rama, M, Zallo, A, Contri, R, and Guido, E
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BABAR Collaboration ,hep-ex ,Mathematical Sciences ,Physical Sciences ,Engineering ,General Physics - Abstract
Although CP violation in the B meson system has been well established by the B factories, there has been no direct observation of time-reversal violation. The decays of entangled neutral B mesons into definite flavor states (B(0) or B(0)), and J/ψK(L)(0) or ccK(S)(0) final states (referred to as B(+) or B(-)), allow comparisons between the probabilities of four pairs of T-conjugated transitions, for example, B(0) → B(-) and B(-) → B(0), as a function of the time difference between the two B decays. Using 468 × 10(6) BB pairs produced in Υ(4S) decays collected by the BABAR detector at SLAC, we measure T-violating parameters in the time evolution of neutral B mesons, yielding ΔS(T)(+) = -1.37 ± 0.14(stat) ± 0.06(syst) and ΔS(T)(-) = 1.17 ± 0.18(stat) ± 0.11(syst). These nonzero results represent the first direct observation of T violation through the exchange of initial and final states in transitions that can only be connected by a T-symmetry transformation.
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- 2012