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Measurement of D0-D̄0 mixing using the ratio of lifetimes for the decays D0→K-π+ and K+K-

  • Author(s): Aubert, B;
  • Karyotakis, Y;
  • Lees, JP;
  • Poireau, V;
  • Prencipe, E;
  • Prudent, X;
  • Tisserand, V;
  • Tico, JG;
  • Grauges, E;
  • Martinelli, M;
  • Palano, A;
  • Pappagallo, M;
  • Eigen, G;
  • Stugu, B;
  • Sun, L;
  • Battaglia, M;
  • Brown, DN;
  • Hooberman, B;
  • Kerth, LT;
  • Kolomensky, YG;
  • Lynch, G;
  • Osipenkov, IL;
  • Tackmann, K;
  • Tanabe, T;
  • Hawkes, CM;
  • Soni, N;
  • Watson, AT;
  • Koch, H;
  • Schroeder, T;
  • Asgeirsson, DJ;
  • Hearty, C;
  • Mattison, TS;
  • McKenna, JA;
  • Barrett, M;
  • Khan, A;
  • Randle-Conde, A;
  • Blinov, VE;
  • Bukin, AD;
  • Buzykaev, AR;
  • Druzhinin, VP;
  • Golubev, VB;
  • Onuchin, AP;
  • Serednyakov, SI;
  • Skovpen, YI;
  • Solodov, EP;
  • Todyshev, KY;
  • Bondioli, M;
  • Curry, S;
  • Eschrich, I;
  • Kirkby, D;
  • Lankford, AJ;
  • Lund, P;
  • Mandelkern, M;
  • Martin, EC;
  • Stoker, DP;
  • Atmacan, H;
  • Gary, JW;
  • Liu, F;
  • Long, O;
  • Vitug, GM;
  • Yasin, Z;
  • Sharma, V;
  • Campagnari, C;
  • Hong, TM;
  • Kovalskyi, D;
  • Mazur, MA;
  • Richman, JD;
  • Beck, TW;
  • Eisner, AM;
  • Heusch, CA;
  • Kroseberg, J;
  • Lockman, WS;
  • Martinez, AJ;
  • Schalk, T;
  • Schumm, BA;
  • Seiden, A;
  • Wang, L;
  • Winstrom, LO;
  • Cheng, CH;
  • Doll, DA;
  • Echenard, B;
  • Fang, F;
  • Hitlin, DG;
  • Narsky, I;
  • Ongmongkolkul, P;
  • Piatenko, T;
  • Porter, FC;
  • Andreassen, R;
  • Mancinelli, G;
  • Meadows, BT;
  • Mishra, K;
  • Sokoloff, MD;
  • Bloom, PC;
  • Ford, WT;
  • Gaz, A;
  • Hirschauer, JF;
  • Nagel, M;
  • Nauenberg, U;
  • Smith, JG;
  • Wagner, SR
  • et al.

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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.071103Creative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
Abstract

We measure the rate of D0-D̄0 mixing with the observable yCP=(τKπ/τKK)-1, where τKK and τKπ are, respectively, the mean lifetimes of CP-even D0→K+K- and CP-mixed D0→K-π+ decays, using a data sample of 384fb-1 collected by the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory. From a sample of D0 and D̄0 decays where the initial flavor of the decaying meson is not determined, we obtain yCP=[1.12±0.26(stat)±0.22(syst)]%, which excludes the no-mixing hypothesis at 3.3σ, including both statistical and systematic uncertainties. This result is in good agreement with a previous BABAR measurement of yCP obtained from a sample of D*+→D0π+ events, where the D0 decays to K-π+, K+K-, and π+π-, which is disjoint with the untagged D0 events used here. Combining the two results taking into account statistical and systematic uncertainties, where the systematic uncertainties are assumed to be 100% correlated, we find yCP=[1.16±0.22(stat)±0. 18(syst)]%, which excludes the no-mixing hypothesis at 4.1σ. © 2009 The American Physical Society.

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