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6 Interference in

  In this section we will discuss the possibility to detect CP violation through the study of the time difference distribution , defined in eq. (8), choosing and [32]. To this purpose we recall some useful decomposition of the decay amplitude, referring to [9] for a more detailed discussion of these decays.

The amplitude for decays can be generally decomposed as the sum of two terms: the inner bremsstrahlung and the direct emission [9]. The first term, which has a pole at zero photon energy, is completely predicted by QED in terms of the amplitude [34]:

 

The second term, which is obtained by subtracting from the total amplitude, depends on the structure of the effective vertex and provides a test for mesonic interaction models.

The amplitude is usually decomposed also in a different way, separating the electric and the magnetic terms. Defining the dimensionless amplitudes E and M as in [35], we can write:

 

where

As can be seen from eq. (55), the inner bremsstrahlung amplitude can contribute only to the term, while the direct emission amplitude can contribute to both the and the terms. Summing over photon helicities there is no interference between electric and magnetic terms:

 

(). Thus the two contributions and can interfere in the amplitude, contrary to the case of the amplitude where only a direct emission contribution appears:

Finally the magnetic and the electric direct emission amplitudes can be decomposed in a multipole expansion (see Refs. [9,36]). Since higher multipoles are suppressed by angular momentum barrier, in the following we will consider only the lowest multipole component (the dipole one). In this approximation the electric amplitude is CP-conserving in the decay and CP-violating in the one, while the magnetic amplitude is CP-conserving in the decay and CP-violating in the one. For this reason, since is enhanced by the pole at zero photon energy, the decay is completely dominated by the electric transition, while electric and magnetic contributions are of the same order in the decay.

Similar to and cases it is convenient to introduce the CP-violating parameter:

 

where the subscript indicates that only the lowest multipole component of the electric direct emission amplitude has been considered. Using eq. (55) we can write:

 

where is the usual CP-violating parameter. The term proportional to in eq. (61) is a direct CP-violating contribution, not related to the amplitude and consequently not suppressed by the 1/22 factor of the rule. However, although could be much larger than , the second term in eq. (61) is suppressed by the factor .

The parameter has already been measured at Fermilab obtaining for the IB contribution [37]

 

 

DANE should improve these limits by studying the time evolution of the decay.

Referring to [32] for an extensive analysis, here we show how to take advantage of the -factories possibilities to measure . Choosing as final states , and following the notation of Section 2, the time difference distribution, integrated over final phase space, is given bygif:

 

where and

 

Neglecting the phase space dependence of one should have , and therefore the interference term of eq. (64) measures the CP-violating amplitude. The expression for t>0 is obtained by interchanging and changing the sign of the term. By fitting the experimental data with the theoretical expression of eq. (64), one should be able to measure the interference term and then improve the measurement of . Very useful to this purpose will be the difference among the fluxes defined in eq. (64) with positive and negative lepton charges, as discussed for decays.

To conclude, we remark that not only the semileptonic tagging but also the one can be used to measure [32].



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