Published May 25, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Evidence for D0-D0 Mixing

  • 1. Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, IN2P3/CNRS et Universite de Savoie, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux (France)
  • 2. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
  • 3. Universita di Bari, Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 4. University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)
  • 5. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

Description

We present evidence for D0-D0 mixing in D0→K+π- decays from 384 fb-1 of e+e- colliding-beam data recorded near √(s)=10.6 GeV with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II storage rings at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. We find the mixing parameters x'2=[-0.22±0.30(stat)±0.21(syst)]x10-3 and y'=[9.7±4.4(stat)±3.1(syst)]x10-3 and a correlation between them of -0.95. This result is inconsistent with the no-mixing hypothesis with a significance of 3.9 standard deviations. We measure RD, the ratio of doubly Cabibbo-suppressed to Cabibbo-favored decay rates, to be [0.303±0.016(stat)±0.010(syst)]%. We find no evidence for CP violation

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
98
Journal Issue
21
Journal Page Range
p. 211802-211802.7
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

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(c) 2007 The American Physical Society
Collaborations
BABAR Collaboration