Wednesday 21 January 2009

Speaker: Tom Latham   (Warwick)

Title: Constraints on the CKM Unitarity Triangle from Charmless Threebody Decays at BaBar

Abstract:

Recent results from BaBar on CP violation in B decays to charmless 3-body final states are presented.
The Dalitz-plot and time-dependent analysis techniques are introduced and it is shown how they can be
combined to analyse decays such as B0 -> Ks pi+ pi-.  The results shown include measurements of the
CKM Unitarity Triangle angles beta and gamma, as well as evidence of direct CP violation.