This Letter presents a study of the flavor-changing neutral current radiative B± → K± π∓ π± γ decays performed using data collected in proton-proton collisions with the LHCb detector at 7 and 8 TeV center-of-mass energies. In this sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb^−1, nearly 14000 signal events are reconstructed and selected, containing all possible intermediate resonances with a K± π∓ π± final state in the [1.1,1.9] GeV/c^2 mass range. The distribution of the angle of the photon direction with respect to the plane defined by the final-state hadrons in their rest frame is studied in intervals of K± π∓ π± mass and the asymmetry between the number of signal events found on each side of the plane is obtained. The first direct observation of the photon polarization in the b → s γ transition is reported with a significance of 5.2 σ.

R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, J. Albrecht, et al. (2014). Observation of Photon Polarization in the b → s γ Transition. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 112(16), 1-8 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.161801].

Observation of Photon Polarization in the b → s γ Transition

CARBONE, ANGELO;GALLI, DOMENICO;PATRIGNANI, CLAUDIA;PERAZZINI, STEFANO;VAGNONI, VINCENZO MARIA;ZANGOLI, MARIA;
2014

Abstract

This Letter presents a study of the flavor-changing neutral current radiative B± → K± π∓ π± γ decays performed using data collected in proton-proton collisions with the LHCb detector at 7 and 8 TeV center-of-mass energies. In this sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb^−1, nearly 14000 signal events are reconstructed and selected, containing all possible intermediate resonances with a K± π∓ π± final state in the [1.1,1.9] GeV/c^2 mass range. The distribution of the angle of the photon direction with respect to the plane defined by the final-state hadrons in their rest frame is studied in intervals of K± π∓ π± mass and the asymmetry between the number of signal events found on each side of the plane is obtained. The first direct observation of the photon polarization in the b → s γ transition is reported with a significance of 5.2 σ.
2014
R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, J. Albrecht, et al. (2014). Observation of Photon Polarization in the b → s γ Transition. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 112(16), 1-8 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.161801].
R. Aaij; B. Adeva; M. Adinolfi; A. Affolder; Z. Ajaltouni; J. Albrecht; F. Alessio; M. Alexander; S. Ali; G. Alkhazov; P. Alvarez Cartelle; A.A. Alves...espandi
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