Analysis of B Meson Decays to Three Charged Pions

Decays of B mesons to three-body charmless final states probe the properties of the weak interaction through their dependence on the complex quark couplings in the CKM matrix. They also test dynamical models for hadronic B decays. Based on a sample of 772 million BB pairs collected by the Belle experiment, we present a study of direct CP violation in the decay of charged B to three charged pions.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Physics

Department dc:contributor.department

Physics

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2015

Author dc:creator

• Li, Yao

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Piilonen, Leo E.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Sharpe, Eric R.
• Link, Jonathan M.
• Heremans, Jean J.

• Decays of B mesons
• CP violation

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• In Copyright

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• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:7061

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/64388