Measurement of CP violation in the phase space of B± → K+ K- π± and B± → π+ π- π± decays

• Published in: Physical review letters 2014-01, Vol.112 (1), p.011801-011801
• Main Authors: Aaij, R, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Adrover, C, Affolder, A, Ajaltouni, Z, Albrecht, J, Alessio, F, Alexander, M, Ali, S, Alkhazov, G, Alvarez Cartelle, P, Alves, Jr, A A, Amato, S, Amerio, S, Amhis, Y, Anderlini, L, Anderson, J, Andreassen, R, Andrews, J E, Appleby, R B, Aquines Gutierrez, O, Archilli, F, Artamonov, A, Artuso, M, Aslanides, E, Auriemma, G, Baalouch, M, Bachmann, S, Back, J J, Badalov, A, Baesso, C, Balagura, V, Baldini, W, Barlow, R J, Barschel, C, Barsuk, S, Barter, W, Bauer, Th, Bay, A, Beddow, J, Bedeschi, F, Bediaga, I, Belogurov, S, Belous, K, Belyaev, I, Ben-Haim, E, Bencivenni, G, Benson, S, Benton, J, Berezhnoy, A, Bernet, R, Bettler, M-O, van Beuzekom, M, Bien, A, Bifani, S, Bird, T, Bizzeti, A, Bjørnstad, P M, Blake, T, Blanc, F, Blouw, J, Blusk, S, Bocci, V, Bondar, A, Bondar, N, Bonivento, W, Borghi, S, Borgia, A, Bowcock, T J V, Bowen, E, Bozzi, C, Brambach, T, van den Brand, J, Bressieux, J, Brett, D, Britsch, M, Britton, T, Brook, N H, Brown, H, Bursche, A, Busetto, G, Buytaert, J, Cadeddu, S, Callot, O, Calvi, M, Calvo Gomez, M, Camboni, A, Campana, P, Campora Perez, D, Carbone, A, Carboni, G, Cardinale, R, Cardini, A, Carranza-Mejia, H, Carson, L, Carvalho Akiba, K, Casse, G, Castillo Garcia, L, Cattaneo, M
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Experiments; Física de partícules; Particle physics
• ISSN: 0031-9007; 1079-7114
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.011801

The charmless decays B± → K+ K- π± and B± → π+ π- π± are reconstructed in a data set of pp collisions with an integrated luminosity of 1.0  fb(-1) and center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, collected by LHCb in 2011. The inclusive charge asymmetries of these modes are measured to be A(CP)(B± → K+ K- π±) = -0.141±0.040  (stat)±0.018 (syst)±0.007(J/ψ K±) and A(CP)(B± → π+ π- π±) = 0.117±0.021 (stat)±0.009 (syst)±0.007(J/ψ K±), where the third uncertainty is due to the CP asymmetry of the B± → J/ψK± reference mode. In addition to the inclusive CP asymmetries, larger asymmetries are observed in localized regions of phase space.