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Measurement of CP observables in B±→DCPK± decays and constraints on the CKM angle γ
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Del Amo Sanchez, P; Lees, JP; Poireau, V; Prencipe, E; Tisserand, V; Garra Tico, J; Grauges, E; Martinelli, M; Palano, A; Pappagallo, M; Eigen, G; Stugu, B; Sun, L; Battaglia, M; Brown, DN; Hooberman, B; Kerth, LT; Kolomensky, YG; Lynch, G; Osipenkov, IL; Tanabe, T; Hawkes, CM; Watson, AT; Koch, H; Schroeder, T; Asgeirsson, DJ; Hearty, C; Mattison, TS; McKenna, JA; Khan, A; Randle-Conde, A; Blinov, VE; Buzykaev, AR; Druzhinin, VP; Golubev, VB; Onuchin, AP; Serednyakov, SI; Skovpen, YI; Solodov, EP; Todyshev, KY; Yushkov, AN; Bondioli, M; Curry, S; Kirkby, D; Lankford, AJ; Mandelkern, M; Martin, EC; Stoker, DP; Atmacan, H; Gary, JW; Liu, F; Long, O; Vitug, GM; Campagnari, C; Hong, TM; Kovalskyi, D; Richman, JD; Eisner, AM; Heusch, CA; Kroseberg, J; Lockman, WS; Martinez, AJ; Schalk, T; Schumm, BA; Seiden, A; Winstrom, LO; Cheng, CH; Doll, DA; Echenard, B; Hitlin, DG; Ongmongkolkul, P; Porter, FC; Rakitin, AY; Andreassen, R; Dubrovin, MS; Mancinelli, G; Meadows, BT; Sokoloff, MD; Bloom, PC; Ford, WT; Gaz, A; Nagel, M; Nauenberg, U; Smith, JG; Wagner, SR; Ayad, R; Toki, WH; Jasper, H; Karbach, TM; Merkel, J; Petzold, A; Spaan, B; Wacker, K; Kobel, MJ; Schubert, KR; Schwierz, R; Bernard, D; Verderi, M; Clark, PJ; Playfer, S
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Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 82(7)
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Using the entire sample of 467×106 Υ(4S)→BB̄ decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, we perform an analysis of B±→DK± decays, using decay modes in which the neutral D meson decays to either CP-eigenstates or non-CP-eigenstates. We measure the partial decay rate charge asymmetries for CP-even and CP-odd D final states to be A CP+=0.25±0.06±0.02 and ACP-=-0.09±0. 07±0.02, respectively, where the first error is the statistical and the second is the systematic uncertainty. The parameter ACP+ is different from zero with a significance of 3.6 standard deviations, constituting evidence for direct CP violation. We also measure the ratios of the charged-averaged B partial decay rates in CP and non-CP decays, RCP+=1.18±0. 09±0.05 and RCP-=1.07±0.08±0.04. We infer frequentist confidence intervals for the angle γ of the unitarity triangle, for the strong phase difference δB, and for the amplitude ratio rB, which are related to the B-→DK- decay amplitude by rBei(δB-γ)=A(B-→D̄0K-)/ A(B-→D0K-). Including statistical and systematic uncertainties, we obtain 0.24