Measurement Of Cp Asymmetries In B0 To K0s K0s K0s Decays PDF Download

We present a preliminary measurement of time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in B° → J/[psi] K{sub S}° and B° → [psi](2S)K{sub S}° decays recorded by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC. The data sample consists of 9.0 fb−1 collected at the [Upsilon](4S) resonance and 0.8 fb−1 off-resonance. One of the neutral B mesons, produced in pairs at the [Upsilon](4S), is fully reconstructed. The flavor of the other neutral B meson is tagged at the time of its decay, mainly with the charge of identified leptons and kaons. A neural network tagging algorithm is used to recover events without a clear lepton or kaon tag. The time difference between the decays is determined by measuring the distance between the decay vertices. Wrong-tag probabilities and the time resolution function are measured with samples of fully-reconstructed semileptonic and hadronic neutral B final states. The value of the asymmetry amplitude, sin2[beta], is determined from a maximum likelihood fit to the time distribution of 120 tagged B° → J/[psi] K{sub S}° and B° → [psi](2S) K{sub S}° candidates to be sin2[beta] = 0.12 ± 0.37(stat) ± 0.09(syst) (preliminary).