First Experimental Study of Photon Polarization in Radiative Bs0 Decays

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Aaij, R. [41 ]
Adeva, B. [40 ]
Adinolfi, M. [49 ]
Ajaltouni, Z. [5 ]
Akar, S. [6 ]
Albrecht, J. [10 ]
Alessio, F. [41 ]
Alexander, M. [54 ]
Ali, S. [44 ]
Alkhazov, G. [31 ]
Cartelle, P. Alvarez [56 ]
Alves, A. A., Jr. [60 ]
Amato, S. [2 ]
Amerio, S. [23 ]
Amhis, Y. [7 ]
An, L. [42 ]
Anderlini, L. [18 ]
Andreassi, G. [42 ]
Andreotti, M. [17 ,71 ]
Andrews, J. E. [61 ]
Appleby, R. B. [57 ]
Archilli, F. [44 ]
d'Argent, P. [12 ]
Romeu, J. Arnau [6 ]
Artamonov, A. [38 ]
Artuso, M. [62 ]
Aslanides, E. [6 ]
Auriemma, G. [26 ]
Baalouch, M. [5 ]
Babuschkin, I. [57 ]
Bachmann, S. [12 ]
Back, J. J. [51 ]
Badalov, A. [39 ]
Baesso, C. [63 ]
Baker, S. [56 ]
Baldini, W. [17 ]
Barlow, R. J. [57 ]
Barschel, C. [41 ]
Barsuk, S. [7 ]
Barter, W. [41 ]
Baszczyk, M. [27 ]
Batozskaya, V. [29 ]
Batsukh, B. [62 ]
Battista, V. [42 ]
Bay, A. [42 ]
Beaucourt, L. [4 ]
Beddow, J. [54 ]
Bedeschi, F. [24 ]
Bediaga, I. [1 ]
Bel, L. J. [44 ]
机构
[1] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[2] Univ Fed Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[3] Tsinghua Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[4] Univ Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, IN2P3, LAPP, Annecy Le Vieux, France
[5] Univ Blaise Pascal, Clermont Univ, CNRS, IN2P3,LPC, Clermont Ferrand, France
[6] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France
[7] Univ Paris Sud, CNRS, IN2P3, LAL, Orsay, France
[8] Univ Paris 06, Univ Paris Diderot, CNRS, IN2P3,LPNHE, Paris, France
[9] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, Aachen, Germany
[10] Tech Univ Dortmund, Fak Phys, Dortmund, Germany
[11] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, Heidelberg, Germany
[12] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Phys, Heidelberg, Germany
[13] Univ Coll Dublin, Sch Phys, Dublin, Ireland
[14] Sez INFN Bari, Bari, Italy
[15] Sez INFN Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[16] Sez INFN Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
[17] Sez INFN Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
[18] Sez INFN Firenze, Florence, Italy
[19] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, Frascati, Italy
[20] Sez INFN Genova, Genoa, Italy
[21] Sez INFN Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
[22] Sez INFN Milano, Milan, Italy
[23] Sez INFN Padova, Padua, Italy
[24] Sez INFN Pisa, Pisa, Italy
[25] Sez INFN Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
[26] Sez INFN Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
[27] Polish Acad Sci, Henryk Niewodniczanski Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[28] AGH Univ Sci & Technol, Fac Phys & Appl Comp Sci, Krakow, Poland
[29] Natl Ctr Nucl Res, Warsaw, Poland
[30] Horia Hulubei Natl Inst Phys & Nucl Engn, Bucharest, Romania
[31] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, Gatchina, Russia
[32] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow, Russia
[33] Moscow State Univ SINP MSU, Inst Nucl Phys, Moscow, Russia
[34] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow, Russia
[35] Yandex Sch Data Anal, Moscow, Russia
[36] Budker Inst Nucl Phys SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
[37] Novosibirsk State Univ, Novosibirsk, Russia
[38] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[39] Univ Barcelona, ICCUB, Barcelona, Spain
[40] Univ Santiago de Compostela, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
[41] CERN, European Org Nucl Res, Geneva, Switzerland
[42] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
[43] Univ Zurich, Inst Phys, Zurich, Switzerland
[44] Nikhef Natl Inst Subat Phys, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[45] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[46] NSC Kharkiv Inst Phys & Technol, Kharkov, Ukraine
[47] Inst Nucl Res Natl Acad Sci KINR, Kiev, Ukraine
[48] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[49] Univ Bristol, HH Wills Phys Lab, Bristol, Avon, England
[50] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge, England
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.021801
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0702 ;
摘要
The polarization of photons produced in radiative B-s(0) decays is studied for the first time. The data are recorded by the LHCb experiment in pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb(-1) at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. A time-dependent analysis of the B-s(0) ->phi gamma decay rate is conducted to determine the parameter A(Delta), which is related to the ratio of right-over left-handed photon polarization amplitudes in b -> s gamma transitions. A value of A(Delta) = -0.98(-0.52)(-0.20)(+0.46)(+0.23) is measured. This result is consistent with the standard model prediction within 2 standard deviations.
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