29 juni 2010
Friday 2 July 2010, 11:00h, at Nikhef in H331
Speaker: Guennadi Borissov (D0)
Title: Evidence for an anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry
Abstract:
We measure the charge asymmetry (A) of like-sign dimuon events in 6.1 inverse fb of p-pbar collisions recorded with the D0 detector at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. From A, we extract the like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry in semileptonic b-hadron decays: Asupb_(sl) = −0.00957 pm 0.00251 (stat) pm 0.00146 (syst). This result differs by 3.2 standard deviations from the standard model prediction Asupb_(sl) (SM) = −2.3 (+0.5) (-0.6) times 10sup(-4) and provides the first evidence of anomalous CP-violation in the mixing of neutral B mesons.