Using Kaon regeneration to probe the quark mixing parameter cos2β in B → ψK decays

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 5284-5287

  Quinn, Helen R ^a   Schietinger, Thomas ^a   Silva, João P ^a,b   Snyder, Arthur E ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARTICLE DETECTORS; TUNGSTEN;

KAON REGENERATION; KAYSER SEMILEPTONIC METHOD; QUARK MIXING PARAMETER;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 0034499963     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5284     Document Type: Article

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