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Precise Measurements of Direct CP Violation, CPT Symmetry, and Other Parameters in the Neutral Kaon System

Authors :
Collaboration, K
Abouzaid, E
Arenton, M
Barker, AR
Barrio, M
Bellantoni, L
Blucher, E
Bock, GJ
Bown, C
Cheu, E
Coleman, R
Corcoran, MD
Cox, B
Erwin, AR
Escobar, CO
Glazov, A
Golossanov, A
Gomes, RA
Gouffon, P
Graham, J
Hamm, J
Hsiung, YB
Jensen, DA
Kessler, R
Kotera, K
LaDue, J
Ledovskoy, A
McBride, PL
Monnier, E
Nguyen, H
Niclasen, R
II, DGP
Prasad, V
Qi, XR
Ramberg, EJ
Ray, RE
Ronquest, M
Roodman, A
Santos, E
Shanahan, P
Shawhan, PS
Slater, W
Smith, D
Solomey, N
Swallow, EC
Taegar, SA
Toale, PA
Tschirhart, R
Wah, YW
Wang, J
White, HB
Whitmore, J
Wilking, MJ
Winstein, B
Winston, R
Worcester, ET
Yamanaka, T
Zimmerman, ED
Zukanovich, RF
Publication Year :
2010

Abstract

We present precise tests of CP and CPT symmetry based on the full dataset of K to pipi decays collected by the KTeV experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory during 1996, 1997, and 1999. This dataset contains 16 million K to 2pi0 and 69 million K to pi+pi- decays. We measure the direct CP violation parameter Re(epsilon'/epsilon) = (19.2 pm 2.1)x10-4. We find the KL-KS mass difference Deltam = (5270 pm 12)x10^6 hbar/s and the KS lifetime tauS = (89.62 pm 0.05)x10-12 s. We also measure several parameters that test CPT invariance. We find the difference between the phase of the indirect CP violation parameter, epsilon, and the superweak phase, phi_epsilon - phi_SW = (0.40 pm 0.56) degrees. We measure the difference of the relative phases between the CP violating and CP conserving decay amplitudes for K to pi+pi- (phi+-) and for K to 2pi0 (phi00), Delta phi = (0.30 pm 0.35) degrees. From these phase measurements, we place a limit on the mass difference between K0 and K0bar, DeltaM < 4.8 x 10-19 GeV/c^2 at 95% C.L. These results are consistent with those of other experiments, our own earlier measurements, and CPT symmetry.<br />28 pages, 30 figures; removed extra figure

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....7259b696ab65b5d58594c073663f98cb