Evidence for DirectCPViolation in the Measurement of the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa AngleγwithB∓→D(*)K(*)∓Decays

We report the measurement of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa $CP$-violating angle $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ through a Dalitz plot analysis of neutral $D$-meson decays to ${K}_{S}^{0}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ and ${K}_{S}^{0}{K}^{+}{K}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ produced in the processes ${B}^{\ensuremath{\mp}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}D{K}^{\ensuremath{\mp}}$, ${B}^{\ensuremath{\mp}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{D}^{*}{K}^{\ensuremath{\mp}}$ with ${D}^{*}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}D{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{0}$, $D\ensuremath{\gamma}$, and ${B}^{\ensuremath{\mp}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}D{K}^{*\ensuremath{\mp}}$ with ${K}^{*\ensuremath{\mp}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{K}_{S}^{0}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{\ensuremath{\mp}}$, using 468 million $B\overline{B}$ pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy ${e}^{+}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ collider at SLAC. We measure $\ensuremath{\gamma}=(68\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}14\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}4\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}3)\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{}$ (modulo 180\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{}), where the first error is statistical, the second is the experimental systematic uncertainty, and the third reflects the uncertainty in the description of the neutral $D$ decay amplitudes. This result is inconsistent with $\ensuremath{\gamma}=0$ (no direct $CP$ violation) with a significance of 3.5 standard deviations.

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