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Measuring the photon polarization in B -->Kpipigamma
Michael Gronau1, Yuval Grossman, Dan Pirjol
1Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, 32000 Haifa, Israel.
Physical Review Letters
|February 28, 2002
Abstract:
We propose a way of measuring the photon polarization in radiative B decays into K resonance states decaying to Kpipi, which can test the standard model and probe new physics. The photon polarization is shown to be measured by the up-down asymmetry of the photon direction relative to the Kpipi decay plane in the K resonance rest frame. The integrated asymmetry in K1(1400)-->Kpipi, calculated to be 0.34 plus/minus 0.05 in the standard model, is measurable at currently operating B factories.