PT Journal
AU LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, Rea
   Garcia Martin, LM
   Martinez-Vidal, F
   Oyanguren, A
   Remon Alepuz, C
   Ruiz Valls, P
   Sanchez Mayordomo, C
TI First Experimental Study of Photon Polarization in Radiative B-s(0) Decays
SO Physical Review Letters
JI Phys. Rev. Lett.
PY 2017
BP 021801
EP 9pp
VL 118
IS 2
DI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.021801
LA English
AB The polarization of photons produced in radiative B-s(0) decays is studied for the first time. The data are recorded by the LHCb experiment in pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb(-1) at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. A time-dependent analysis of the B-s(0) ->phi gamma decay rate is conducted to determine the parameter A(Delta), which is related to the ratio of right-over left-handed photon polarization amplitudes in b -> s gamma transitions. A value of A(Delta) = -0.98(-0.52)(-0.20)(+0.46)(+0.23) is measured. This result is consistent with the standard model prediction within 2 standard deviations.
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