Measurement of branching-fraction ratios and CP asymmetries in B± → DCP±K± decays at Belle and Belle II

A bstract We report results from a study of B ± → DK ± decays followed by D decaying to the CP -even final state K + K − and CP-odd final state K S 0 π 0 , where D is an admixture of D 0 and D ¯ 0 states. These decays are sensitive to the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa unitarity-triangle angle ϕ 3 . The results are based on a combined analysis of the final data set of 772 × 10 6 B B ¯ pairs collected by the Belle experiment and a data set of 198 × 10 6 B B ¯ pairs collected by the Belle II experiment, both in electron-positron collisions at the Υ(4 S ) resonance. We measure the CP asymmetries to be A CP + = (+12.5 ± 5.8 ± 1.4)% and A CP− = ( − 16.7 ± 5.7 ± 0.6)%, and the ratios of branching fractions to be R CP + = 1.164 ± 0.081 ± 0.036 and R CP− = 1.151 ± 0.074 ± 0.019. The first contribution to the uncertainties is statistical, and the second is systematic. The asymmetries A CP + and A CP− have similar magnitudes and opposite signs; their difference corresponds to 3.5 standard deviations. From these values we calculate 68.3% confidence intervals of (8.5 ° < ϕ 3 < 16.5 ° ) or (84.5 ° < ϕ 3 < 95.5 ° ) or (163.3 ° < ϕ 3 < 171.5 ° ) and 0.321 < r B < 0.465.