New phases in CP violating B decay asymmetries from mixing to singlet down quarks

Aug, 1993
26 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 49 (1994) 2322-2330
Report number:
  • UCI-93-14

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Abstract: (APS)
Groups such as E6 with extra SU(2)L singlet down quarks give rise to flavor-changing neutral currents (FCNC's) through the mixing of four or more down quarks. These currents may substantially contribute to the processes of Bd0−B¯d0 and Bs0−B¯s0 mixing, within the allowed range of nonzero values for the four quark mixing parameters. These would then introduce new angles and phases into the CP-violating B decay asymmetries. Other, negative FCNC experiments put limits on these angles. Using a maximum likelihood analysis with contributions from both the standard model and the FCNC's, we find large regions for new physics phases contributing to CP-violating B decay asymmetries. From the bound on the mixing elements, the new singlet down quark might have a mass above the 500 GeV range.
  • B: nonleptonic decay
  • nonleptonic decay: B
  • decay: inclusive reaction
  • inclusive reaction: decay
  • CP: violation
  • neutral current: flavor changing
  • effective Hamiltonian
  • B0 anti-B0: mixing
  • Z0: nonleptonic decay
  • nonleptonic decay: Z0