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Laboratory for Particle Physics (LTP)


LTP Colloquium

News on CP Violation of B-Mesons from BABAR

Friday, February 1, 2002, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium

Prof. R. Waldi, Rostock

Abstract:
CP violation is known since 1964 to occur as small asymmetry in the neutral kaon system, and is well explained today in the Standard Model. In 2001, a big asymmetry at a different place, in the system of neutral B mesons, has been significantly established for the first time and found to agree with the Standard Model prediction. The phenomenology of CP violation and the measurement of the CP violating parameter sin 2\beta by the BABAR experiment will presented. We also search for more CP asymmetries at B mesons, and will be able to test the Standard Model using many different channels in the next few years.