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Published on: January 25, 2012
Method for determining the D0-D0 mixing parameters
Nita Sinha1, Rahul Sinha, T E Browder
1The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Taramani, Chennai 600113, India.
Abstract:
We propose a new method to determine the mass and width differences of the two D meson mass eigenstates as well as the CP violating parameters associated with D0-D[over ]0 mixing. We show that an accurate measurement of all the mixing parameters is possible for an arbitrary CP violating phase, by combining observables from a time dependent study of D decays to a doubly Cabibbo suppressed mode with information from a CP eigenstate. As an example we consider D0-->K*0pi0 decays where the K*0 is reconstructed in both K+pi- and K(S)pi0. We also show that decays to the CP eigenstate D-->K+K- together with D-->K+pi- decays can be used to extract all the mixing parameters. There is a fourfold ambiguity in the solutions for x and y in both the cases. A combined analysis using D0-->K*0pi0 and D-->K+K- can also be used to reduce the ambiguity in the determination of parameters.
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