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September 26, 2001University of Rochester1 The Mirror Crack’d*: History and Status of CP Violation Studies Eric Prebys (UR ‘90*), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Representing the BELLE Collaboration *apologies to Agatha Christie

September 26, 2001University of Rochester2 The BELLE Collaboration  300 people from 49 Institutions in 11 Countries: Australia, China, India, Korea, Japan, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine, and USA

September 26, 2001University of Rochester3 Just to set the tone…. Dear Eric, I just returned to Rochester and I am happy to know that Tom has invited you for a colloquium on Sep 26. Can you send me a title of your talk at the earliest. I would like to tell you a few things that Tom may not have mentioned. First, you will be the first speaker of the semester and, therefore, you carry a great responsibility for presenting a very good colloquium. Second, since our colloquium attendance has thinned over the years (because of bad talks, specialized talks), I have assured the students that I will only invite extraordinary speakers who can give a very general talk to graduate students across all disciplines. So, I would like you to prepare your talk keeping this in mind. In particular, what this means is that please do not make it a talk on experimental physics, rather on physics. Remember the time when you were a student and the kinds of things you hated in colloquia, please avoid them. Not all the students will be from high energy physics. In fact, many are from optics, astronomy and so a talk with less display of detectors etc and with a greater balance of theoretical motivation and the explanation of results would be highly appreciated. Why am I telling you all this? Well, first of all, you were our former student and as such I have a right to ask you for things. Second, you will be the first speaker and if the students are not thrilled with your talk, the attendance may shrink in the subsequent talks. On the other hand, if your talk is superb, which I hope it will be, more people will show up for the later talks (people have a tendency to extrapolate). In any case, please keep in mind that you will be talking to a general audience and not to a group of experimentalists. Let me know when your itinerary is complete, but please send me a title in a couple of days. With very best regards, Ashok.

September 26, 2001University of Rochester4 Outline Why do we care? History –Parity Violation –V-A Currents and CP (almost) Conservation –CP Violation in the Neutral K System –The Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskowa Mechanism –“The” Unitarity Triangle The Present –Direct CP Violation in the Neutral K System (  ’/  ) –Indirect CP Violation in the B meson System (B-Factories) The Future?

September 26, 2001University of Rochester5 Why do We Care? Dirac first predicted antimatter in 1930 as a consequence of the “extra” solutions to his relativistic formulation of quantum mechanics - and was widely ridiculed. The positron (anti-electron) was discovered by Anderson in 1932 and the anti- proton was discovered by Segre and Chamberlain in Now we are all quite comfortable with the idea of antimatter as “equal and opposite” to matter, e.g. …but why does the universe seem to be made entirely of matter? Why do there seem to be tiny differences in the physics of matter and antimatter? These legitimately qualify as “big questions”. “Of course, there is only one correct mixing ratio of matter and antimatter: one to one !” – Star Trek, The Next Generation

September 26, 2001University of Rochester6 Parity Violation The “parity” operation transforms the universe into its mirror image (goes from right-handed to left-handed). Maxwell’s equations are totally parity invariant. BUT, in the 50’s huge parity violation was observed in weak decays… Example  decay of polarized Co... electron preferentially emitted opposite spin direction

September 26, 2001University of Rochester7 Weak Currents and Parity Violation Review: QED Transform like vectors For weak interactions, try (“four fermion interaction”) vector axial vector Manifestly Violates Parity!!

September 26, 2001University of Rochester8 “V-A” Current Experimentally, it was found that data were best described by Maximum Parity Violation!!!! Recall that for Direct Spinors, the left handed projection operator is “Left-handed” current For massless particles, spinor state = helicity state Only Left-handed Neutrinos

September 26, 2001University of Rochester9 CP Conservation ( sort of ) When we apply the usual Dirac gymnastics, we find that for anti-particles Right-handed current Only Right-handed anti-Neutrinos Overall symmetry restored under the combined operations of C(harge conjugation) and P(arity). CP Conservation!!! well, maybe not….

September 26, 2001University of Rochester10 The Neutral Kaon System In experiments in the 1950s, it was found that there were two types of neutral strange particles, of indistinguishable mass (498 MeV), but with different decay properties. CP = -1 CP = +1 Because 3*m   m K, the K L lives about 600 times longer than the K S, hence the names. Possible explanation: Strangeness eigenstates close, but not quite correct…

September 26, 2001University of Rochester11 CP Violation in the Neutral K System In 1964, Fitch, Cronin, etal, showed that in fact K L  2  with a branching ratio on the order of Interpretation: CP Eigenstates Mass Eigenstates

September 26, 2001University of Rochester12 The Significance In other words… where This generated great interest (not to mention a Nobel Prize), and has been studied in great detail ever since, but until recently had only been conclusively observed in the kaon system. Unlike parity violation, it is not trivial to incorporate CP violation into the standard model. To understand how it is done, we must now digress a bit into some details of fundamental particle interactions….

September 26, 2001University of Rochester13 Weak Interactions in the Standard Model In the Standard Model, the fundamental particles are leptons and quarks In this model, weak interactions are analogous to QED. OR quarks combine as to form hadrons leptons exist independently

September 26, 2001University of Rochester14 Quark Mixing In the Standard Model, leptons can only transition within a generation (NOTE: probably not true!) Although the rate is suppressed, quarks can transition between generations.

September 26, 2001University of Rochester15 The CKM Matrix (1973) The weak quark eigenstates are related to the strong (or mass) eigenstates through a unitary transformation. Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) Matrix The only straightforward way to accommodate CP violation in the SM is by means of an irreducible phase in this matrix This requires at least three generations and led to prediction of t and b quarks … a year before the discovery of the c quark!

September 26, 2001University of Rochester16 Wolfenstein Parameterization The CKM matrix is an SU(3) transformation, which has four free parameters. Because of the scale of the elements, this is often represented with the “Wolfenstein Parameterization” CP Violating phase First two generations almost unitary. = sine of “Cabbibo Angle”

September 26, 2001University of Rochester17 “The” Unitarity Triangle Unitarity imposes several constraints on the matrix, but one (product first and third columns)... results in a triangle in the complex plane with sides of similar length, and appears the most interesting for study

September 26, 2001University of Rochester18 The  Plane Remembering the Wolfenstein Parameterization we can divide through by the magnitude of the base (A 3 )…. CP violation is generally discussed in terms of this plane

September 26, 2001University of Rochester19 Direct CP Violation CP Violation is manifests itself as a difference between the physics of matter and anti-matter Direct CP Violation is the observation of a difference between two such decay rates; however, the amplitude for one process can in general be written Weak phase changes signStrong phase does not Since the observed rate is only proportional to the amplitude, a difference would only be observed if there were an interference between two diagrams with different weak and strong phase.  Rare and hard to interpret

September 26, 2001University of Rochester20 Direct CP Violation in the Neutral Kaon System (  ’/  Measurement) Recall… If there is only indirect CP violation, then ALL 2  decays really come from K 1, and we expect (among other things) But the Standard Model allows Direct CP Violation

September 26, 2001University of Rochester21 Direct CP Violation in the Neutral Kaon System (cont’d) ’’ CP=+1 CP=-1 CP=+1 Formalism: Theoretical estimates for  ’  range from 4-30 x 10 -4

September 26, 2001University of Rochester22 Easy to Measure….NOT! Detector Must take great steps to understand acceptances and systematic errors!!

September 26, 2001University of Rochester23 KTeV Experiment (Fermilab) (Images from Jim Graham’s Fermilab “Wine and Cheese” Talk)

September 26, 2001University of Rochester24 Current Status of  ’  At this point, the accuracy of this measurement is better than that of the theoretical prediction: (4-30 x ) (ibid.) This bothered people

September 26, 2001University of Rochester25 Indirect CP Violation in the B Meson System Let’s Look at B-mixing… Mixing phase

September 26, 2001University of Rochester26 Indirect CP Violation (cont’d) If both can decay to the same CP eigenstate f, there will be an interference And the time-dependent decay probability will be Decay phase CP state of f Mixing phase Difference between B mass eigenstates

September 26, 2001University of Rochester27 The  Resonances    At the right energies, electrons and positrons can produce a spectrum of bound resonant states of b and anti-b quarks The 1 - states are called the “  (‘Upsilon’)resonances” Starting with the  (4S), they can decay strongly to pairs of B-mesons. The lighter states must decay through quark- antiquark annihilation

September 26, 2001University of Rochester28 The Basic Idea We can create pairs at the resonance. Even though both B’s are mixing, if we tag the decay of one of them, the other must be the CP conjugate at that time. We therefore measure the time dependent decay of one B relative to the time that the first one was tagged (EPR “paradox”). PROBLEM: At the resonance, B’s only go about 30  m in the center of mass, making it difficult to measure time- dependent mixing.

September 26, 2001University of Rochester29 The Clever Trick (courtesy P. Oddone) If the collider is asymmetric, then the entire system is Lorentz boosted. In the Belle Experiment, 8 GeV e - ’s are collided with 3.5 GeV e + ’s so  So now the time measurement becomes a z position measurement.

September 26, 2001University of Rochester30 “Gold-Plated” Decay Total state CP

September 26, 2001University of Rochester31 Predicted Signature t = Time of tagged decays

September 26, 2001University of Rochester32 “Tin-Plated” Decay Complicated by “penguin pollution”, but still promising

September 26, 2001University of Rochester33 Make LOTS of pairs at the  (4S) resonance in an asymmetric collider. Detect the decay of one B to a CP eigenstate. Tag the flavor of the other B. Reconstruct the position of the two vertices. Measure the z separation between them and calculate proper time separation as Fit to the functional form Write papers. Over the last ~8 years, there have been two dedicated experiments under way to do this – BaBar (SLAC) and Belle (KEK) Review - What B-Factories Do...

September 26, 2001University of Rochester34 Motivations for Accelerator Parameters Must be asymmetric to take advantage of Lorentz boost. The decays of interest all have branching ratios on the order of or lower. –Need lots and lots of data! Physics projections assume 100 fb -1 = cm -2 s -1 Would have been pointless if less than cm -2 s -1

September 26, 2001University of Rochester35 The KEKB Collider (KEK) Asymmetric Rings –8.0GeV(HER) –3.5GeV(LER) E cm =10.58GeV= M(  (4S)) Target Luminosity: s -1 cm -2 Circumference: 3016m Crossing angle:  11mr RF Buckets: 5120  2ns crossing time

September 26, 2001University of Rochester36 The PEP-II Collider (SLAC) Asymmetric Rings –9.0GeV(HER) –3.1GeV(LER) E cm =10.58GeV= M(  (4S)) Target Luminosity: 3x10 33 s -1 cm -2 Crossing angle: 0 mr 4ns crossing time

September 26, 2001University of Rochester37 Motivation for Detector Parameters Vertex Measurement –Need to measure decay vertices to <100  m to get proper time distribution. Tracking… –Would like  p/p .5-1% to help distinguish B  decays from B  K  and B  KK decays. –Provide dE/dx for particle ID. EM calorimetry –Detect  ’s from slow, asymmetric   ’s  need efficiency down to 20 MeV. Hadronic Calorimetry –Tag muons. –Tag direction of K L ’s from decay B  K L. Particle ID –Tag strangeness to distinguish B decays from Bbar decays (low p). –Tag  ’s to distinguish B  decays from B  K  and B  KK decays (high p). Rely on mature, robust technologies whenever possible!!!

September 26, 2001University of Rochester38 The Belle Detector

September 26, 2001University of Rochester39 BaBar Detector (SLAC)

September 26, 2001University of Rochester40 The Accelerator is Key!!! STOP Run +HV Down +Fill HER +Fill LER +HV Up +START Run = 8 Minutes!

September 26, 2001University of Rochester41 Luminosity Daily integrated luminosity Total integrated luminosity Total for first CP Results (Osaka): Total for these Results: Our Records: Instantaneous: Per (0-24h) day: Per (24 hr) day: Per week: To date: (on peak) Note: integrated numbers are accumulated! World Records!!

September 26, 2001University of Rochester42 The Pieces of the Analysis Event reconstruction and selection Flavor Tagging Vertex reconstruction CP fitting

September 26, 2001University of Rochester43 J/  and K S Reconstruction  Mev Require mass within 4  of PDG

September 26, 2001University of Rochester44 B  K S Reconstruction In the CM, both energy and momentum of a real B 0 are constrained. Use “Beam-constrained Mass”: Signal 123 Events 3.7 Background

September 26, 2001University of Rochester45 All Fully Reconstructed Modes (i.e. all but  L ) ModeEventsBackground B  S All Others29046 Total74758

September 26, 2001University of Rochester46 B  K L Reconstruction Measure direction (only) of K L in lab frame Scale momentum so that M(K L +  )=M(B 0 ) Transform to CM frame and look at p(B 0 ). KLM Cluster J/  daughter particles KLKL

September 26, 2001University of Rochester47 B  K L Signal 0<p B * <2 GeV/c Biases spectrum! 346 Events 223 Background

September 26, 2001University of Rochester48 Flavor Tagging X

September 26, 2001University of Rochester49 Flavor Tagging (Slow Pion) Very slow pion Combined effective efficiency  eff =  t (1-2w) 2 = 27.0 .2%

September 26, 2001University of Rochester50 Vertex Reconstruction (SVD) Overall efficiency = ~85%. In total 1137 events for the CP fit.

September 26, 2001University of Rochester51 CP Fit (Probability Density Function) f BG = background fraction. Determined from a 2D fit of E vs M. R(  t) = resolution function. Determined from D * ’s and MC. PDF BG (  t) = probability density function of background. Determined from  sideband.

September 26, 2001University of Rochester52 Resolution Function Fit with a double-Gaussian…

September 26, 2001University of Rochester53 Test of Vertexing – B Lifetime

September 26, 2001University of Rochester54 The Combined Fit (All Charmonium States)

September 26, 2001University of Rochester55 Sources of Systematic Error Bottom Line Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 87, (2001)

September 26, 2001University of Rochester56 The BaBar Measurement Phys.Rev.Lett. 87 (2001) Based on 32 million B-Bbar pairs

September 26, 2001University of Rochester57 Summary of 2  1 Measurements

September 26, 2001University of Rochester58 How About That  Plane? World Average Sin2  1 (  1  ) Constraints of Everything but Sin2  1 Looks good for the Standard Model, but a little dull for experimenters !

September 26, 2001University of Rochester59 Current Status The study of CP Violation has been going on for almost 40 years! A number of experiments are currently taking data which seem to be confirming the Standard Model (CKM) explanation of CP Violation, and thereby constraining that model –Direct CP violation is observed in the neutral K system! –CP is violated in the B-Meson system! Over the next several years, the existing B-Factories will continue to take data, providing tighter and tighter constraints. New players are also coming on the scene: –Fermilab Run II (CDF and D0) - now –BTeV (dedicated B Experiment at Fermilab) - ~2005 –LHC (Atlas and CMS) –LHC-B (dedicated B Experiment at LHC) - ?

September 26, 2001University of Rochester60 More “Out There” CP Violation in the sector? (probably there, hard to study) CPT Violation? –CPT Conservation is a direct consequence of the Lorentz invariance of the Lagrangian. –Evidence of its violation would be observation (direct or indirect) of and would be big news. We still can’t answer why the unverse is all matter. Maybe it isn’t! –The AMS experiment, set to fly on the ISS, will look for massive anti- nuclei to test the hypothesis that distant parts of the universe might be antimatter (!!)

September 26, 2001University of Rochester61 Are Two B-Factories Too Many? These are not discovery machines! Any interesting physics would manifest itself as small deviations from SM predictions. People would be very skeptical about such claims without independent confirmation. Therefore, the answer is NO (two is not one too many, anyway).

September 26, 2001University of Rochester62 Differences Between PEP-II (BaBar) and KEKB (Belle) PEP-II has complex IR optics to force beams to collide head-on. Pros: Interaction of head-on beams well understood. Cons: Complicates IR design. More synchrotron radiation. Can’t populate every RF bucket. In KEK-B, the beams cross at ±11 mr. Pros: Simple IR design. Can populate every RF bucket. Lower (but not zero!!!) synchrotron radiation. Cons: Crossing can potentially couple longitudinal and transverse instabilities. At present, both designs seem to be working.

September 26, 2001University of Rochester63 Differences (cont’d) Readout: BaBar uses an SLD-inspired system, based on a continuous digitization. The entire detector is pipelined into a software-based trigger. Pros: Extremely versatile trigger. Less worry about hardware-based trigger systematics. Can go to very high luminosities. Cons: Required development of lots of custom hardware. Belle’s readout is based on converting signals to time-pulses. The trigger is an “old-fashioned” hardware-based level one. Events satisfying level one are read out after a 2 µs latency. Pros: Simple. Readout relies largely on “off-the-shelf” electronics. Cons: Potential for hardware-based trigger systematics. Possible problems with high luminosity.

September 26, 2001University of Rochester64 Particle ID needs