JOINT PARTICLE SEMINAR

Date: Wednesday, 5 November 2003 Time: 3:00 p.m.

Place: 4135 Frederick Reines Hall

Speaker: Aaron Roodman, SLAC

Title: Recent Measurements of Penguin Processes in B Meson Decays

Abstract: Since the discovery of CP violation in the B meson system, the Babar experiment at the SLAC B Factory has continued to explore additional CP violating effects. In particular two types of decays, where the so-called penguin diagrams are important, are of great current interest: B->pi pi decays and b->sssbar decays. A second CP violating angle, in addition to the angle beta already measured, will eventually be measured using the B->pipi decays. Decays of the type b->sssbar have great potential for observing CP violating effects beyond the Standard Model. Recent measurements by Babar for both these transitions will be presented.

Host: A. Lankford