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MEASUREMENT OF B0=B0 ! J= K0S DECAY ASYMMETRY USING SAME-SIDE B-FLAVORTAGGINGJ. TSENGMassachusetts Institute of Technologyfor the CDF CollaborationWe present a measurement of the time-dependent asymmetry in the rate for B0 versus B0 decays to J= K0S . The data sampleconsists of 198  17 B0=B0 decays collected by the CDF detector in pp collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron, where the initial b avor has been determined by a same-side avor tagging technique. This asymmetry is interpreted in the Standard Model as ameasurement of the CP -violation parameter sin(2). Our analysis results in sin(2) = 1:8 1:1(stat) 0:3(syst).1 IntroductionSince its discovery over thirty years ago, CP violationhas remained an elusive eect experimentally observedin only a few signatures among kaon decays. The factthat it lies at or near the heart of fundamental questionsin physics|including not only questions of what lies be-yond the Standard Model, but also such expansive ques-tions as the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetryof the universe|only intensies the precise exploitationof known signatures as well as the search for its manifes-tations wherever they may be found.A popular mechanism for explaining CP violationlies in the relationship between the weak and mass eigen-states of the dierent generations of quarks. This rela-tionship is parameterized in the Standard Model withthe unitary Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) quarkmixing matrix,10@ d0s0b01A = 0@Vud Vus VubVcd Vcs VcbVtd Vts Vtb 1A0@ dsb1A ; (1)where d, s, and b are the mass eigenstates and d0, s0, andb0 are the weak interaction eigenstates. With three gen-erations, this matrix possesses a physical complex phasecapable of accommodatingCP violation. It is interestingthat the original 1973 proposal of a third quark genera-tion to explain CP violation predates by a year the unex-pected discovery of the charmonium states which servedto complete the second generation.This article concerns the extension of the search forCP viol