1 CKM Fits: What the Data Say (focused on B-Physics) Stéphane T’JAMPENS LAPP (CNRS/IN2P3 & Université de Savoie)

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1 CKM Fits: What the Data Say (focused on B-Physics) Stéphane T’JAMPENS LAPP (CNRS/IN2P3 & Université de Savoie)

2 Outline CKM phase invariance and unitarity Statistical issues CKM metrology Inputs Tree decays: |V ub |,|V cb | Loop decays:  m d,  m s,  K UT angles: , ,  The global CKM fit What about New Physics? Conclusion Charm is interesting in several special areas, but I will concentrate on b’s

3 The Unitary Wolfenstein Parameterization  The standard parameterization uses Euler angles and one CPV phase  unitary !  Now, define  And insert into V  V is still unitary ! With this one finds (to all orders in ) : where: Buras et al., PRD 50, 3433 (1994) Chau and Keung PRL 53, 1802 (1984) [and PDG]  Four unknowns [unitary-exact and phase-convention invariant]: Charles et al. EPJC 41, 1 (2005) Physically meaningful quantities are phase-convention invariant

4 from |V ud | (nuclear transitions) and |V us | (semileptonic K decays)  combined precision: 0.5% from |V cb | (inclusive and exclusive semileptonic B decays)  combined precision: 2% from (mainly) CKM angle measurements:  combined precision: 20% (  ), 7% (  ) The CKM Matrix: Four Unknowns Measurement of Wolfenstein parameters:

5 Predictive Nature of KM Mechanism    Re Im J /2 All measurements must agree Can the KM mechanism describe flavor dynamics of many constraints from vastly different scales? This is what matters and not the measurement of the CKM phase’s value per se Pre B-Factory:

6 The (rescaled) Unitarity Triangle: The B d System Convenient method to illustrate (dis-)agreement of observables with CKM predictions phase invariant : “There is no such thing as  /  2 ” [  =  – (  +  )]

7 The Unitarity Triangle: The B s System (hadron machines)  squashed triangle O(  ) + O(  ) + O(  ) = 0 (ut) triangle: O(  ) + O(  ) + O(  ) = 0 (sb) triangle (“B s triangle”):  non-squashed triangle Attention: sign ’’  º

8 Generic B physics experiment Silva, hep-ph/ Probing short distance (quarks) but confined in hadrons (what we observe)  QCD effects must be under control (various tools: HQET, SCET, QCDF, LQCD,…)  “Theoretical uncertainties” have to be controlled quantitatively in order to test the Standard Model. There is however no systematic method to do that.

9 Digression: Statistics

10 Frequentist: probability about the data (randomness of measurements), given the model P(data|model) Hypothesis testing: given a model, assess the consistency of the data with a particular parameter value  1-CL curve (by varying the parameter value) [only repeatable events (Sampling Theory)] Statistics tries answering a wide variety of questions  two main different! frameworks: Digression: Statistics D.R. Cox, Principles of Statistical Inference, CUP (2006) W.T. Eadie et al., Statistical Methods in Experimental Physics, NHP (1971) Bayesian: probability about the model (degree of belief), given the data P(model|data)  Likelihood(data,model)  Prior(model) Although the graphical displays appear similar: the meaning of the “Confidence level” is not the same. It is especially important to understand the difference in a time where one seeks deviation of the SM. P(data|model) ≠ P(model|data): model: Male or Female data: pregnant or not pregnant P (pregnant | female) ~ 3% but P (female | pregnant) >>>3% Lyons – CDF Stat Committee

11 Digression: Statistics (cont.) hep-ph/ : “Bayesian Statistics at Work: the Troublesome Extraction of the CKM Angle  ” (J. Charles et al.) The Bayesian approach in physical science fails in the sense that nothing guarantees that my uncertainty assessment is any good for you - I'm just expressing an opinion (degree of belief). To convince you that it's a good uncertainty assessment, I need to show that the statistical model I created makes good predictions in situations where we know what the truth is, and the process of calibrating predictions against reality is inherently frequentist." How to read a Posterior PDF?  updated belief (after seeing the data) of the plausible values of the parameter  it’s a bet on a proposition to which there is no scientific answer My talk is about “What the Data say”, thus I will stick to the frequentist approach Bayesian: flat priors --- mod. and arg. B→  (w/o theoretical errors): Bayesian: flat priors --- Re and Im Mayo – Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge, UCP(1996)

12 I) Direct Measurement: magnitude |V ud | and |V us | [not discussed here] |V ub | and |V cb | B +   + CPV in K 0 mixing [not discussed here] B d and B s mixing II) Angle Measurements: sin 2   : (B   ,  ,   )  : ADS, GLW, Dalitz (GGSZ) Metrology: Inputs to the Global CKM Fit

13 |V cb | and |V ub |

14 |V cb | (  A) and |V ub | |V ub | (   2 +  2 ) is crucial for the SM prediction of sin(2  ) |V cb | (  A) is important in the kaon system (  K, BR(K  ), …) b  ub  u b  cb  c exclusiveinclusive B   ℓ B  D* ℓ B  X u ℓ B  X c ℓ For |V cb | and |V ub | exist exclusive and inclusive semileptonic approaches (complementary) dominant uncertainties Form factor OPE (|V cb,ub |) and shape function (|V ub |) |V ub /V cb | sin2  Complication for charmless decays:  need to apply kinematic cuts to suppress b  cℓ background  measurements of partial branching fractions in restricted phase space regions  theoretical uncertainties more difficult to evaluate OPE parameters measured from data (spectra and moments of bs and b  cℓ distributions)

15 |V cb | and |V ub | |V cb | : |V ub | : SF params. from b  cl, OPE from BLNP BR precision ~8%, |Vub| excl. ~ 16%: theory dominated HFAG with our error budget our average |V ub | [10 -3 ] = 4.10 ± 0.09 exp ± 0.39 theo |V cb | incl. [10 -3 ]= ± 0.70 PDG06 |V cb | excl. [10 -3 ]= 39.7 ± 2.0 w/ FF=0.91±0.04 ICHEP06 Precision measurement: 1.7% !

16 B +   +  helicity-suppressed annihilation decay sensitive to f B  |V ub | Powerful together with Δm d : removes f B (Lattice QCD) dependence Sensitive to charged Higgs replacing the W propagator Prediction from global CKM fit : ICHEP06 BR[10 -4 ]=0.88 (stat) ± 0.11(syst) (320m) BR[10 -4 ]=1.79 (stat) (syst) (447m)

17  m d and  m s

18 The point is: Measurement of  m s reduces the uncertainties on f 2 B d B d since  is better known from Lattice QCD  Leads to improvement of the constraint from  m d measurement on |V td V * tb | 2 Very weak dependence on  and  __  SU(3)-breaking corrections  m d and  m s : constraints in the (  -  ) plane ==→

19 msms 17 <  m s < 21 ps C.L. hep-ex/ hep-ex/  m s : 17.77±0.10(stat.) ± 0.07 (syst.) ps -1 The signal has a significance of 5.4 

20 Constraint on |V td /V ts |  First strong indication that B s -B s mixing is probably SM-like. _

21 angle 

22 sin 2  “The” raison d’être of the B factories: Conflict with sin2  eff from s-penguin modes ? (New Physics (NP)?) NP can contribute differently among the various s-penguin modes (Naïve average: 0.52±0.05). NB: a disagreement would falsify the SM. The interference NP/SM amplitudes introduces hadronic uncertainties  Cannot determine the NP parameters cleanly

23 angle 

24 angle  Tree : dominant Penguin : competitive ? Time-dependent CP analysis of B 0   +  – alone determines  eff : but, we need  ! Time-dependent CP observable : (  can be resolved up to an 8-fold ambiguity within [0,  ]) Isospin analysis

25 Isospin Analysis: B→  B A B AR (347m) Belle (532m) Average S  –0.53 ± 0.14 ± 0.02–0.61 ± 0.10 ± 0.04–0.58 ± 0.09 C  –0.16 ± 0.11 ± 0.03–0.55 ± 0.08 ± 0.05–0.39 ± 0.07 “agreement”: 2.6σ BABAR & Belle

26 Isospin Analysis: B→  B A B AR (347m) Belle (275m) Average S  –0.19 ± ± 0.41 ± 0.09–0.13 ± 0.19 C  –0.07 ± 0.15 ± ± 0.3 ± 0.09–0.06 ± 0.14 BABAR & Belle  = [ 94 ± 21 ] º Isospin analysis : 0.86 ± 0.06 f L 00 B A B AR (347m) (1.2±0.4±0.3)x10 -6 BR

27 Isospin analysis B→  :Isospin analysis B→  : Isospin Analysis: angle  eff  B→  |  -  eff | < 22.4º (95% CL)|  -  eff | < 32.1º (95% CL)

28 The B   System Dominant mode ρ +  – is not a CP eigenstate mixing CP –+–+ +–+– 0000 Aleksan et al, NP B361, 141 (1991) Snyder-Quinn, PRD 48, 2139 (1993) Amplitude interference in Dalitz plot simultaneous fit of  and strong phases Measure 26 (27) bilinear Form Factor coefficients correlated  2 fit to determine physics quantities Dalitz analysis + isospin (pentagon) analysis no constraint at 2  level [60, 95]º at 68.3% C. L. Lipkin et al., PRD 44, 1454 (1991) (347m) (449m)

29 Isospin Analysis: angle  B→  /  /  B→  : at very large statistics, systematics and model-dependence will become an issue B→ρ  Dalitz analysis: model-dependence is an issue !  B-Factories = [ 93 ] º  Global Fit = [ 100 ] º +5 -7

30 angle 

31 Tree: dominantTree: color-suppressed relative CKM phase :  No Penguins angle  [ next UT input that is not theory limited ] GLW : D 0 decays into CP eigenstate ADS : D 0 decays to K –  + (favored) and K +  – (suppressed) GGSZ : D 0 decays to K S  +  – (interference in Dalitz plot) All methods fit simultaneously: , r B and  different r B and  Gronau-London, PL B253, 483 (1991); Gronau-Wyler, PL B265, 172 (1991) Atwood-Dunietz-Soni, PRL 78, 3257 (1997) Giri et al, PRD 68, (2003)   depends significantly on the value of r B Several variants:

32 Constraint on   B-Factories = [ 60 ] º  Global Fit = [ 59 ] º r B (DK) = 0.10 r B (D*K) = 0.10 r B (DK*) =

33 Putting it all together t h e g l o b a l C K M f i t Inputs:

34 The global CKM fit: Testing the CKM Paradigm CP-insensitive observables imply CP violation ! CP ConservingCP Violating No angles (with theory)Angles (no theory)

35 ICHEP 2006 The global CKM fit: Testing the CKM Paradigm (cont.) [No NP in  I=3/2 b→d EW penguin amplitude Use  with  (charmonium) to cancel NP amplitude] Tree (NP-Free)Loop CKM mechanism: dominant source of CP violation The global fit is not the whole story: several  F=1 rare decays are not yet measured  Sensitive to NP “Reference UT”

36 The global CKM fit: selected predictions Wolfenstein parameters: Jarlskog invariant: UT Angles: UT sides: B-B mixing: B    m s : 17.77±0.1(stat.) ± 0.07 (syst.) ps -1 (CKM Fit) (direct,CDF) (CKM Fit)(direct,WA)

37 Courtesy A. Roodman New Physics?

38 New Physics in B d -B d Mixing? _ SM No significant modification of the B-B mixing amplitude _

39 Hypothesis: NP in loop processes only (negligible for tree processes) Mass difference:  m s = (  m s ) SM r s 2 Width difference:  s CP = (  s ) SM cos 2 (2  -2  s ) Semileptonic asymmetry: A s SL =-Re(  12 /M 12 ) SM sin(2  s )/r s 2 S  = sin(2  -2  s ) Grossman, PL B380, 99 (1996) Dunietz, Fleischer, Nierste, PRD 63, (2001) NP wrt to SM: reduces  s enhances  m s B s mixing phase very small in SM:  = (deg)  Bs mixing: very sensitive probe to NP UT of B d system: non-degenerated  (h d,  d ) strongly correlated to the determination of ( ,  ) UT of B s system: highly degenerated  (h s,  s ) almost independent of ( ,  ) NP Parameterization in B s system

fb -1  (  m s )= 0.035,  (sin(2  )=0.1  m s,  s and A s SL First constraint for NP in the B s sector Still plenty of room for NP Large theoretical uncertainties: LQCD h s ~<= 3 (h d ~<=0.3, h K ~<= 0.6) NP in B s System

41 B s -mixing phase ICHEP06 – Conf note 5144 (Preliminary) (stat+syst) Time-dependent angular distribution of untagged decays B s →J/  + charge asymmetry Prediction from global CKM fit : [rad]  Precision prediction  Sensitive test to NP

42 NP in b→s transitions? peng

43 NP related solely to the third generations? ccs+peng

44 Conclusion CKM mechanism: success in describing flavor dynamics of many constraints from vastly different scales. Improvement of Lattice QCD is very desirable [Charm/tau factory will help] B s : an independent chapter in Nature’s book on fundamental dynamics there is no reason why NP should have the same flavor structure as in the SM B s transitions can be harnessed as powerful probes for NP (  : “NP model killer”) With the increase of statistics, lots of assumptions will be needed to be reconsidered [e.g., extraction of  from B→3 ,4 , etc., P EW, …] Before claiming NP discovery, be sure that everything is “under control” (assumptions, theoretical uncertainties, etc.)  null tests of the SM There are still plenty of measurements yet to be done

45 BACKUP SLIDES

46 Radiative Penguin Decays: BR(B→  )/BR(B→K*  ) Belle (386m) B A B AR (347m) 1.06 ± ± 0.07 ++ 00

47

48 G. Isidori – Beauty ‘03

49 Bayes at work = x P(0 events| ) (Likelihood) Prior: uniform Posterior P( )  3 P( ) d = Same as Frequentist limit - Happy coincidence Zero events seen P(n; )=e - n /n! R. Barlow – YETI06

50 Bayes at work again = x P(0 events| ) Prior: uniform in ln Posterior P( )  3 P( ) d >> Is that uniform prior really credible? Upper limit totally different! R. Barlow – YETI06

51 Bayes: the bad news The prior affects the posterior. It is your choice. That makes the measurement subjective. This is BAD. (We’re physicists, dammit!) A Uniform Prior does not get you out of this. Beware snake-oil merchants in the physics community who will sell you Bayesian statistics (new – cool – easy – intuitive) and don’t bother about robustness. R. Barlow – YETI06

52 Hypersphere: One knows nothing about the individual Cartesian coordinates x,y,z… What do we known about the radius r =√(x^2+y^2+…) ? One has achieved the remarkable feat of learning something about the radius of the hypersphere, whereas one knew nothing about the Cartesian coordinates and without making any experiment. 6D space Digression: Statistics(cont.)