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# Measurement of CP Violation in the Decay B+→K+π0

02 Mar 2021-Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society (APS))-Vol. 126, Iss: 9, pp 091802
Abstract: A measurement of direct CP violation in the decay $B^{+} \rightarrow K^{+} \pi^{0}$ is reported using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 $\textrm{fb}^{-1}$, collected with the LHCb experiment at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV. The CP asymmetry is measured to be $0.025 \pm 0.015 \pm 0.006 \pm 0.003$, where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and due to an external input, respectively. This is the most precise measurement of the CP asymmetry in the decay $B^{+} \rightarrow K^{+} \pi^{0}$ and exceeds the precision on the current world average. This direct CP asymmetry is a key input to studies of a long-standing anomaly in $B$ meson decays, known as the $K\pi$-puzzle. The asymmetry is consistent with the previous measurements of this quantity, confirming and significantly enhancing the observed anomalous difference between the direct CP asymmetries of the $B^{+} \rightarrow K^{+} \pi^{-}$ and $B^{+} \rightarrow K^{+} \pi^{0}$ decays.

Topics: CP violation (52%)
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Jun Hua1, Hsiang-nan Li2, Cai-Dian Lü3, Wei Wang1  +1 moreInstitutions (3)
28 Jul 2021-Physical Review D
Abstract: Based on the flavor structure of four-quark effective operators, we develop an automatic computation program to calculate hadronic two-body $B$ meson decay amplitudes, and apply it to their global analysis in the perturbative QCD (PQCD) approach. Fitting the PQCD factorization formulas for $B\to PP,VP$ decays at leading order in the strong coupling $\alpha_s$ to measured branching ratios and direct CP asymmetries, we determine the Gegenbauer moments in light meson light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs). It is found that most of the fitted Gegenbauer moments of the twist-2 and twist-3 LCDAs for the pseudoscalar meson $P$ ($P=\pi$, $K$) and vector meson $V$ ($V=\rho$, $K^*$) agree with those derived in QCD sum rules. The shape parameter for the $B_s$ meson distribution amplitude and the weak phase $\phi_3(\gamma)=(75.1\pm2.9)^\circ$ consistent with the value in Particle Data Group are also obtained. It is straightforward to extend our analysis to higher orders and higher powers in the PQCD approach, and to the global determination of LCDAs for other hadrons.

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Abstract: We offer a new solution to an old puzzle in the penguin-dominated $B\to\pi K$ decays. The puzzle is the inconsistency among the measurements of the branching ratios and CP asymmetries of the four $B\to\pi K$ decays: $B^+ \to \pi^+ K^0$, $B^+\to \pi^0 K^+$, $B_d^0\to\pi^- K^+$, $B_d^0\to\pi^0 K^0$. We solve the $B\to\pi K$ puzzle by considering the effect of an axion-like particle (ALP) that mixes with the $\pi^0$ and has mass close to the $\pi^0$ mass. We show that the ALP can also explain the anomalies in the electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments.

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07 Sep 2021-Physical Review D
Abstract: We offer a new solution to an old puzzle in the penguin-dominated $B\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\pi}K$ decays. The puzzle is the inconsistency among the measurements of the branching ratios and $CP$ asymmetries of the four $B\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\pi}K$ decays: ${B}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}{K}^{0}$, ${B}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{0}{K}^{+}$, ${B}_{d}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{\ensuremath{-}}{K}^{+}$, ${B}_{d}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{0}{K}^{0}$. We solve the $B\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\pi}K$ puzzle by considering the effect of an axionlike particle (ALP) that mixes with the ${\ensuremath{\pi}}^{0}$ and has mass close to the ${\ensuremath{\pi}}^{0}$ mass. We show that the ALP can also explain the anomalies in the electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments.

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30 Nov 2021-Physical Review D

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Abstract: The Standard Model (SM) predicts that $\Delta A_{\rm CP}$, the difference between the direct CP asymmetries for the modes $B^+\to \pi^0 K^+$ and $B^0\to \pi^- K^+$ that are related by weak isospin, should be close to zero. There has been a recent claim by the LHCb Collaboration that the measured value of $\Delta A_{\rm CP}$ shows an uncomfortable tension with the SM prediction, almost at the $8\sigma$ level. Motivated by this claim, we critically re-examine the data on all the $B\to \pi K$ modes, including the CP asymmetries and CP-averaged branching fractions. From a combined Bayesian analysis with the topological amplitudes and their phases as the free parameters, we find that the best-fit region has a large overlap with the parameter space favoured in the SM, albeit with some enhancement for the electroweak penguin and the colour-suppressed tree amplitudes, consistent with the findings of earlier studies. We find that in this SM-like region, $\Delta A_{\rm CP}$ is more than 5$\sigma$ away from zero and the tension with the global average, as well as the LHCb result, is within $2\sigma$. Thus we conclude that there is not yet enough motivation to go beyond the SM.

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