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Measurement of matter-antimatter differences in beauty baryon decays. / Aaij, R.; Adeva, B.; Adinolfi, M. et al.
In: Nature Physics, Vol. 13, No. 4, 01.04.2017, p. 391-396.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of matter-antimatter differences in beauty baryon decays
AU - Aaij, R.
AU - Adeva, B.
AU - Adinolfi, M.
AU - Ajaltouni, Z.
AU - Akar, S.
AU - Albrecht, J.
AU - Alessio, F.
AU - Alexander, M.
AU - Ali, S.
AU - Alkhazov, G.
AU - Alvarez Cartelle, P.
AU - Alves, A. A.
AU - Amato, S.
AU - Amerio, S.
AU - Amhis, Y.
AU - An, L.
AU - Anderlini, L.
AU - Andreassi, G.
AU - Andreotti, M.
AU - Andrews, J. E.
AU - Appleby, R. B.
AU - Archilli, F.
AU - D'Argent, P.
AU - Arnau Romeu, J.
AU - Artamonov, A.
AU - Artuso, M.
AU - Aslanides, E.
AU - Auriemma, G.
AU - Baalouch, M.
AU - Babuschkin, I.
AU - Bachmann, S.
AU - Back, J. J.
AU - Badalov, A.
AU - Baesso, C.
AU - Baker, S.
AU - Baldini, W.
AU - Barlow, R. J.
AU - Barschel, C.
AU - Barsuk, S.
AU - Barter, W.
AU - Baszczyk, M.
AU - Batozskaya, V.
AU - Batsukh, B.
AU - Battista, V.
AU - Bay, A.
AU - Bondar, A.
AU - Eidelman, S.
AU - Krokovny, P.
AU - Shekhtman, L.
AU - Vorobyev, V.
AU - The LHCb Collaboration
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - Differences in the behaviour of matter and antimatter have been observed in K and B meson decays, but not yet in any baryon decay. Such differences are associated with the non-invariance of fundamental interactions under the combined charge-conjugation and parity transformations, known as CP violation. Here, using data from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, we search for CP-violating asymmetries in the decay angle distributions of Λb 0 baryons decaying to pπ- π+ π- and pπ-K+K- final states. These four-body hadronic decays are a promising place to search for sources of CP violation both within and beyond the standard model of particle physics. We find evidence for CP violation in Λb 0 to pπ- π+ π- decays with a statistical significance corresponding to 3.3 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties. This represents the first evidence for CP violation in the baryon sector.
AB - Differences in the behaviour of matter and antimatter have been observed in K and B meson decays, but not yet in any baryon decay. Such differences are associated with the non-invariance of fundamental interactions under the combined charge-conjugation and parity transformations, known as CP violation. Here, using data from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, we search for CP-violating asymmetries in the decay angle distributions of Λb 0 baryons decaying to pπ- π+ π- and pπ-K+K- final states. These four-body hadronic decays are a promising place to search for sources of CP violation both within and beyond the standard model of particle physics. We find evidence for CP violation in Λb 0 to pπ- π+ π- decays with a statistical significance corresponding to 3.3 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties. This represents the first evidence for CP violation in the baryon sector.
KW - CP-VIOLATION
KW - LAMBDA(B)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85011692302&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/nphys4021
DO - 10.1038/nphys4021
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85011692302
VL - 13
SP - 391
EP - 396
JO - Nature Physics
JF - Nature Physics
SN - 1745-2473
IS - 4
ER -
ID: 9161349