Measuring the Weak Phase gamma in Color Allowed B->DKpi Decays

Roy Aleksan, Troels Petersen, Abner Soffer

Published 2002-09-17, updated 2002-11-15Version 2

We present a method to measure the weak phase gamma in the three-body decay of charged B mesons to the final states D K pi0. These decays are mediated by interfering amplitudes which are color-allowed and hence relatively large. As a result, large CP violation effects that could be observed with high statistical significance are possible. In addition, the three-body decay helps resolve discrete ambiguities that are usually present in measurements of the weak phase. The experimental implications of conducting these measurements with three-body decays are discussed, and the sensitivity of the method is evaluated using a simulation.