A measurement of lifetime differences in the neutral D-meson system

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作者
Link, JM [1 ]
Paolone, VS
Reyes, M
Yager, PM
Anjos, JC
Bediaga, I
Göbel, C
Magnin, J
de Miranda, JM
Pepe, IM
dos Reis, AC
Simao, FRA
Vale, MA
Carrillo, S
Casimiro, E
Mendez, H
Sánchez-Hernández, A
Uribe, C
Vazquez, F
Cinquini, L
Cumalat, JP
Ramirez, JE
O'Reilly, B
Vaandering, EW
Butler, JN
Cheung, HWK
Gaines, I
Garbincius, PH
Garren, LA
Gottschalk, E
Gourlay, SA
Kasper, PH
Kreymer, AE
Kutschke, R
Bianco, S
Fabbri, FL
Sarwar, S
Zallo, A
Cawlfield, C
Kim, DY
Park, KS
Rahimi, A
Wiss, J
Gardner, R
Chung, YS
Kang, JS
Ko, BR
Kwak, JW
Lee, KB
Myung, SS
机构
[1] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[2] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[3] CINVESTAV, Mexico City 07000, DF, Mexico
[4] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[5] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[6] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[7] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[8] Korea Univ, Seoul 136701, South Korea
[9] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[10] Univ Milan, Milan, Italy
[11] Univ N Carolina, Asheville, NC 28804 USA
[12] Univ Pavia, Dipartimento Fis Nucl & Teor, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
[14] Univ Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR 00681 USA
[15] Univ S Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
[16] Univ Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
[17] Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN 37235 USA
[18] Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[19] Yonsei Univ, Seoul 120749, South Korea
[20] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00694-8
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P1 [天文学];
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摘要
Using a high statistics sample of photoproduced charm particles from the FOCUS experiment at Fermilab, we compare the lifetimes of neutral D mesons decaying via D-0 --> K- pi(+) and K-K+ to measure the lifetime differences between CP even and CP odd final states. These measurements bear on the phenomenology of D-0 - (D) over bar(0) mixing. If the D-0 --> K- pi(+) is an equal mixture of CP even and CP odd eigenstates, we measure y(CP) = (Gamma(CP even) - Gamma(CP odd))/(Gamma(CP even) + Gamma(CP odd)) = 0.0342 +/- 0.0139 +/- 0.0074. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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