Method for Determining theD0−D¯0Mixing Parameters

Nita Sinha, Rahul Sinha, T. E. Browder, N. G. Deshpande, Sandip Pakvasa
2007 Physical Review Letters  
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 D^0-D̅^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 D^0-> K^*0π^0 decays where the K^*0 is
more » ... nstructed in both K^+π^- and K_Sπ^0. We also show that decays to the CP eigenstate D-> K^+K^- together with D-> K^+π^- can be used to extract all the mixing parameters. A combined analysis using D^0-> K^*0π^0 and D-> K^+K^- can also be used to reduce the ambiguity in the determination of parameters.
doi:10.1103/physrevlett.99.262002 pmid:18233568 fatcat:hkrtqorerfaunj4ot7kv2jhenq