CP Violation in Selected B Decays

Abstract

We summarize the results of two papers in which we have studied CP violation in inclusive and exclusive decays b -> d e^+e^-. Two CP-violating effects are calculated: the partial rate asymmetry between b and \bar{b} decay, and the asymmetry between e^- and e^+ spectra for an untagged B/\bar{B} mixture. These asymmetries, combined with the branching ratio, can potentially determine the parameters (\rho, \eta) of the unitarity triangle. We also summarize a paper by Browder et al. on a possible CP-violating asymmetry in the inclusive reaction B -> K^-(K^{*-})X.

Comments: 4 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure, uses prhep97.sty (included) and psfig.sty. Talk presented by L. M. Sehgal at the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, 19-26 August 1997, Jerusalem, Israel. To appear in the Proceedings