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Observations are reported of different sources of CP violation from an amplitude analysis of B+ -> pi(+)pi(+)pi(-) decays, based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb(-1) of pp collisions recorded with the LHCb detector. A large CP asymmetry is observed in the decay amplitude involving the tensor f(2)(1270) resonance, and in addition significant CP violation is found in the pi(+)pi S- wave at low invariant mass. The presence of CP violation related to interference between the pi(+)pi S- wave and the P wave B+ -> rho(770)(0)pi(+) amplitude is also established; this causes large local asymmetries but cancels when integrated over the phase space of the decay. The results provide both qualitative and quantitative new insights into CP -violation effects in hadronic B decays.
Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yi Zhang, Yi Wang, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, François Fleuret, Elena Graverini, Renato Quagliani, Federico Betti, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Zhirui Xu, Zheng Wang, Lei Zhang, Christoph Frei, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mark Tobin, Minh Tâm Tran, Niko Neufeld, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Luca Pescatore, Mirco Dorigo, Xiaoxue Han, Liupan An, Federico Leo Redi, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Thibaud Humair, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Guido Andreassi, Violaine Bellée, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Preema Rennee Pais, Pavol Stefko, Tara Nanut, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Tommaso Colombo, Vladimir Macko, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Evgenii Shmanin, Dipanwita Dutta, Yiming Li, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Victor Coco, Adam Davis, Paolo Durante, Yu Zheng, Anton Petrov, Maxim Borisyak, Chunhui Chen, Zhipeng Tang
Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yi Zhang, Yi Wang, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, François Fleuret, Elena Graverini, Renato Quagliani, Federico Betti, Sebastian Schulte, Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Zhirui Xu, Zheng Wang, Lei Zhang, Christoph Frei, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mark Tobin, Minh Tâm Tran, Niko Neufeld, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Luca Pescatore, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Xiaoxue Han, Liupan An, Federico Leo Redi, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Thibaud Humair, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Guido Andreassi, Violaine Bellée, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Preema Rennee Pais, Pavol Stefko, Tara Nanut, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Tommaso Colombo, Vladimir Macko, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Evgenii Shmanin, Dipanwita Dutta, Yiming Li, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Victor Coco, Adam Davis, Paolo Durante, Yu Zheng, Anton Petrov, Maxim Borisyak, Chunhui Chen, Zhipeng Tang
Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yi Zhang, Yi Wang, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, François Fleuret, Elena Graverini, Renato Quagliani, Federico Betti, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Zhirui Xu, Zheng Wang, Lei Zhang, Christoph Frei, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mark Tobin, Minh Tâm Tran, Niko Neufeld, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Luca Pescatore, Mirco Dorigo, Xiaoxue Han, Liupan An, Federico Leo Redi, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Thibaud Humair, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Guido Andreassi, Violaine Bellée, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Preema Rennee Pais, Pavol Stefko, Tara Nanut, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Tommaso Colombo, Vladimir Macko, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Evgenii Shmanin, Dipanwita Dutta, Yiming Li, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Victor Coco, Adam Davis, Paolo Durante, Yu Zheng, Anton Petrov, Maxim Borisyak, Chunhui Chen, Zhipeng Tang