Measurement of the CP-violating phase ϕs in Bs(0)→Ds(+)Ds(-) decays

Phys Rev Lett. 2014 Nov 21;113(21):211801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.211801. Epub 2014 Nov 20.

Abstract

We present a measurement of the CP-violating weak mixing phase ϕs using the decay Bs(0)→Ds(+)Ds(-) in a data sample corresponding to 3.0 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected with the LHCb detector in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. An analysis of the time evolution of the system, which does not use the constraint |λ|=1 to allow for the presence of CP violation in decay, yields ϕs=0.02±0.17(stat)±0.02(syst) rad, |λ|=0.91(-0.15)(+0.18)(stat)±0.02(syst). This result is consistent with the standard model expectation.