We present a measurement of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetry in B-s(0) -> J/psi phi decays, using data collected with the LHCb detector at the LHC. The decay time distribution of B-s(0) -> J/psi phi is characterized by the decay widths Gamma(H) and Gamma(L) of the heavy and light mass eigenstates, respectively, of the B-s(0) - (B) over bar (0)(s) system and by a CP-violating phase phi(s). In a sample of about 8500 B-s(0) -> J/psi phi events isolated from 0.37 fb(-1) of pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV, we measure phi(s) = 0.15 +/- 0.18(stat) +/- 0.06(syst) rad. We also find an average B-s(0) decay width Gamma(s) (Gamma(L) + Gamma(H))/2 = 0.657 +/- 0.009(stat) +/- 0.008(syst) ps(-1) and a decay width difference Delta Gamma(s) Gamma(L) - Gamma(H) = 0.123 +/- 0.029(stat) +/- 0.011(syst) ps(-1). Our measurement is insensitive to the transformation (phi(s), Delta Gamma(s)) bar right arrow (pi - phi(s), - Delta Gamma(s)).
Jian Wang, Matthias Finger, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Matthias Wolf, Varun Sharma, Yi Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Xin Chen, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Sun Hee Kim, Rakesh Chawla, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Anna Mascellani, Federica Legger, Matteo Galli, Gabriele Grosso