Bound on the Ratio of Decay Amplitudes for $\bar{B^0} \to J/\psi K^{0}$ and $B^0 \to J/\psi K^{0}

• Published in: Physical review letters 2004, Vol.93
• Main Authors: Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., Tisserand, V., Zghiche, A., Palano, A., Pompili, A., Chen, J.C., Qi, N.D., Rong, G., Wang, P., Zhu, Y.S., Eigen, G., Ofte, I., Stugu, B., Abrams, G.S., Borgland, A.W., Breon, A.B., Brown, D.N., Button-Shafer, J., Cahn, R.N., Charles, E., Day, C.T., Gill, M.S., Gritsan, A.V., Groysman, Y., Jacobsen, R.G., Kadel, R.W., Kadyk, J., Kerth, L.T., Kolomensky, Yu G., Kukartsev, G., Le Clerc, C., Lynch, G., Merchant, A.M., Mir, L.M., Oddone, P.J., Orimoto, T.J., Pripstein, M., Roe, N.A., Ronan, M.T., Shelkov, V.G., Wenzel, W.A., Ford, K., Harrison, T.J., Hawkes, C.M., Morgan, S.E., Watson, A.T., Fritsch, M., Goetzen, K., Held, T., Koch, H., Lewandowski, B., Pelizaeus, M., Steinke, M., Boyd, J.T., Chevalier, N., Cottingham, W.N., Kelly, M.P., Latham, T.E., Wilson, F.F., Çuhadar-Dönszelmann, T., Hearty, C., Knecht, N.S., Mattison, T.S., Mckenna, J.A., Thiessen, D., Khan, A., Kyberd, P., Teodorescu, L., Blinov, V.E., Bukin, A.D., Druzhinin, V.P., Golubev, V.B., Ivanchenko, V.N., Kravchenko, E.A., Onuchin, A.P., Serednyakov, S.I., Skovpen, Yu I., Solodov, E.P., Yushkov, A.N., Best, D., Bruinsma, M., Chao, M., Eschrich, I., Kirkby, D., Lankford, A.J., Mandelkern, M.A., Mommsen, R.K., Röthel, W., Stoker, D.P., Buchanan, C., Hartfiel, B.L., Gary, J.W., Shen, B.C.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment; Physics
• ISSN: 0031-9007; 1079-7114
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.081801

We have measured the time-dependent decay rate for the process $B \to J/\psi K^{*0}(892)$ in a sample of about 88 million $\Upsilon(4S) \to B\bar{B}$ decays collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy $B$ Factory at SLAC. In this sample we study flavor-tagged events in which one neutral $B$ meson is reconstructed in the $J/\psi K^{*0}$ or $J/\psi \bar{K}^{*0}$ final state. We measure the coefficients of the cosine and sine terms in the time-dependent asymmetries for $J/\psi K^{*0}$ and $J/\psi \bar{K}^{*0}$, find them to be consistent with the Standard Model expectations, and set upper limits at 90% C.L. on the decay amplitude ratios $|A (\bar{B}^0 \to J/\psi K^{*0})|/|A (B^0 \to J/\psi K^{*0})| < 0.26$ and $|A (B^0 \to J/\psi \bar{K}^{*0})|/|A (\bar{B}^0 \to J/\psi \bar{K}^{*0})|