CP-VIOLATION AND STRONG PHASES FROM PENGUINS IN B-+/--]VV-DECAYS

We calculate direct CP-violating observables in charged B --> VV decays arising from the interference of amplitudes with different strong and CKM phases. The perturbative strong phases develop at order alpha(s) from absorptive parts of one-loop matrix elements of the next-to-leading logarithm corrected effective Hamiltonian. CPT constraints are maintained. Based on this model, we find that partial rate asymmetries between charge conjugate B-+/- decays can be as high as 15-30% for certain channels with branching ratios in the 10(-6) range. The small values of the coefficients of angular correlations, which we calculated previously to be of order 10(-2) are not significantly degraded by the strong phases. The charge asymmetries of rates and angular distributions would provide unambiguous evidence for direct CP violation.