Study of $D^{0}-\overline{D}^{0}$ mixing and $D^{0}$ doubly-Cabibbo-suppressed decays

Using a sample of four million hadronic Z events collected in ALEPH from 1991 to 1995, the decays D^{*+} --> D^0 pi_{s}^+, with D^0 decaying to K^- pi^+ or to K^+ pi^-, are studied. The relative br anching ratio $B(\D^0 \to \K^+ \pi^-) / B(\D^0 \to \K^- \pi^+)$ is measured to be ( 1.84 \pm 0.59(\...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Barate, R., Buskulic, D., Decamp, D., Ghez, Philippe, Goy, C., Lees, J.P., Lucotte, A., Merle, E., Minard, M.N., Nief, J.Y., Pietrzyk, B., Alemany, R., Boix, G., Casado, M.P., Chmeissani, M., Crespo, J.M., Delfino, M., Fernandez, E., Fernandez-Bosman, M., Garrido, L., Grauges, E., Juste, A., Martinez, M., Merino, G., Miquel, R., Mir, L.M., Park, I.C., Pascual, A., Riu, I., Sanchez, F., Colaleo, A., Creanza, D., De Palma, M., Gelao, G., Iaselli, G., Maggi, G., Maggi, M., Nuzzo, S., Ranieri, A., Raso, G., Ruggieri, F., Selvaggi, G., Silvestris, L., Tempesta, P., Tricomi, A., Zito, G., Huang, X., Lin, J., Ouyang, Q., Wang, T., Xie, Y., Xu, R., Xue, S., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhao, W., Abbaneo, D., Becker, U., Bright-Thomas, P., Casper, D., Cattaneo, M., Cerutti, F., Ciulli, V., Dissertori, G., Drevermann, H., Forty, R.W., Frank, M., Hagelberg, R., Halley, A.W., Hansen, J.B., Harvey, John, Janot, P., Jost, B., Lehraus, I., Mato, P., Minten, A., Moneta, L., Pacheco, A., Ranjard, F., Rolandi, Gigi, Rousseau, D., Schlatter, D., Schmitt, M., Schneider, O., Tejessy, W., Teubert, F., Tomalin, I.R., Wachsmuth, H., Ajaltouni, Z., Badaud, F., Chazelle, G., Deschamps, O., Falvard, A., Ferdi, C., Gay, P., Guicheney, C., Henrard, P., Jousset, J., Michel, B., Monteil, S., Montret, J.C., Pallin, D., Perret, P., Podlyski, F., Proriol, J., Rosnet, P., Hansen, J.D., Hansen, J.R., Hansen, P.H., Nilsson, B.S., Rensch, B., Waananen, A., Daskalakis, G., Kyriakis, A., Markou, C., Simopoulou, E., Siotis, I., Vayaki, A., Blondel, A., Bonneaud, G., Brient, J.C., Bourdon, P., Rouge, A., Rumpf, M., Valassi, A., Verderi, M., Videau, H., Focardi, E., Parrini, G., Zachariadou, K., Corden, M., Georgiopoulos, C., Jaffe, D.E., Antonelli, A., Bencivenni, G., Bologna, G., Bossi, F., Campana, P., Capon, G., Chiarella, V., Felici, G., Laurelli, P., Mannocchi, G., Murtas, F., Murtas, G.P., Passalacqua, L., Pepe-Altarelli, M., Curtis, L., Lynch, J.G., Negus, P., O'Shea, V., Raine, C., Scarr, J.M., Smith, K., Teixeira-Dias, P., Thompson, A.S., Thomson, Evelyn J., Buchmuller, O., Dhamotharan, S., Geweniger, C., Graefe, G., Hanke, P., Hansper, G., Hepp, V., Kluge, E.E., Putzer, A., Sommer, J., Tittel, K., Werner, S., Wunsch, M., Beuselinck, R., Binnie, D.M., Cameron, W., Dornan, P.J., Girone, M., Goodsir, S., Martin, E.B., Marinelli, N., Moutoussi, A., Nash, J., Sedgbeer, J.K., Spagnolo, P., Williams, M.D., Ghete, V.M., Girtler, P., Kneringer, E., Kuhn, D., Rudolph, G., Betteridge, A.P., Bowdery, C.K., Buck, P.G., Colrain, P., Crawford, G., Finch, A.J., Foster, F., Hughes, G., Jones, R.W.L., Robertson, N.A., Williams, M.I., Giehl, I., Hoffmann, C., Jakobs, K., Kleinknecht, K., Quast, G., Renk, B., Rohne, E., Sander, H.G., van Gemmeren, P., Zeitnitz, C., Aubert, J.J., Benchouk, C., Bonissent, A., Bujosa, G., Carr, J., Coyle, P., Etienne, F., Leroy, O., Motsch, F., Payre, P., Talby, M., Sadouki, A., Thulasidas, M., Trabelsi, K., Aleppo, M., Antonelli, M., Ragusa, F., Berlich, R., Buescher, Volker, Cowan, G., Dietl, H., Ganis, G., Lutjens, G., Mannert, C., Manner, W., Moser, H.G., Schael, S., Settles, R., Seywerd, H., Stenzel, H., Wiedenmann, W., Wolf, G., Boucrot, J., Callot, O., Chen, S., Cordier, A., Davier, M., Duflot, L., Grivaz, J.F., Heusse, P., Hocker, Andreas, Jacholkowska, A., Kim, D.W., Le Diberder, F., Lefrancois, J., Lutz, A.M., Schune, M.H., Tournefier, E., Veillet, J.J., Videau, I., Zerwas, D., Azzurri, P., Bagliesi, Giuseppe, Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Boccali, T., Bozzi, C., Calderini, G., Carpinelli, M., Ciocci, M.A., Dell'Orso, R., Fantechi, R., Ferrante, I., Foa, L., Forti, F., Giassi, A., Giorgi, M.A., Gregorio, A., Ligabue, F., Lusiani, A., Marrocchesi, P.S., Messineo, A., Palla, F., Rizzo, G., Sanguinetti, G., Sciaba, A., Sguazzoni, G., Tenchini, R., Tonelli, G., Vannini, C., Venturi, A., Verdini, P.G., Blair, G.A., Bryant, L.M., Chambers, J.T., Green, M.G., Medcalf, T., Perrodo, P., Strong, J.A., von Wimmersperg-Toeller, J.H., Botterill, D.R., Clifft, R.W., Edgecock, T.R., Norton, P.R., Thompson, J.C., Wright, A.E., Bloch-Devaux, Brigitte, Colas, P., Emery, S., Kozanecki, W., Lancon, E., Lemaire, M.C., Locci, E., Perez, P., Rander, J., Renardy, J.F., Roussarie, A., Schuller, J.P., Schwindling, J., Trabelsi, A., Vallage, B., Black, S.N., Dann, J.H., Johnson, R.P., Kim, H.Y., Konstantinidis, N., Litke, A.M., McNeil, M.A., Taylor, G., Booth, C.N., Cartwright, S., Combley, F., Kelly, M.S., Lehto, M., Thompson, L.F., Affholderbach, K., Boehrer, Armin, Brandt, S., Grupen, C., Saraiva, P., Smolik, L., Stephan, F., Giannini, G., Gobbo, B., Musolino, G., Rothberg, J., Wasserbaech, S., Armstrong, S.R., Charles, E., Elmer, P., Ferguson, D.P.S., Gao, Y., Gonzalez, S., Greening, T.C., Hayes, O.J., Hu, H., Jin, S., McNamara, P.A., III, Nachtman, J.M., Nielsen, J., Orejudos, W., Pan, Y.B., Saadi, Y., Scott, I.J., Walsh, J., Wu, S.L., Wu, X., Zobernig, G.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 1998
Materias:
Particle Physics - Experiment
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00946-0
http://cds.cern.ch/record/361255
Descripción
Sumario:Using a sample of four million hadronic Z events collected in ALEPH from 1991 to 1995, the decays D^{*+} --> D^0 pi_{s}^+, with D^0 decaying to K^- pi^+ or to K^+ pi^-, are studied. The relative br anching ratio $B(\D^0 \to \K^+ \pi^-) / B(\D^0 \to \K^- \pi^+)$ is measured to be ( 1.84 \pm 0.59(\stat) \pm 0.34(\syst). The two possible contributions to the $\decDW$ decay, doubly Cabibbo-suppr essed decays and D^0-$D^0bar mixing, are disentangled by measuring the proper-time distribution of the reconstructed D^0's. Assuming no interference between the two processes, the upper limit obtai ned on the mixing rate is 0.92% at 95 % CL. The possible effect of interference between the two amplitudes is also assessed.

Ejemplares similares