Measurements of charm mixing and $C P$ violation using $D^0 \to K^\pm \pi^\mp$ decays

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LHCb-PAPER-2016-033
CERN-EP-2016-280
arXiv:1611.06143 [PDF]

(Submitted on 18 Nov 2016)
Phys. Rev. D95 (2017) 052004
Inspire 1499047

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Abstract

Measurements of charm mixing and $C P$ violation parameters from the decay-time-dependent ratio of $ D^0 \to K^+ \pi^- $ to $ D^0 \to K^- \pi^+ $ decay rates and the charge-conjugate ratio are reported. The analysis uses $\overline{B}\to D^{*+} \mu^- X$, and charge-conjugate decays, where $D^{*+}\to D^0 \pi^+$, and $D^0\to K^{\mp} \pi^{\pm}$. The $pp$ collision data are recorded by the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb$^{-1}$. The data are analyzed under three hypotheses: (i) mixing assuming $C P$ symmetry, (ii) mixing assuming no direct $C P$ violation in the Cabibbo-favored or doubly Cabibbo-suppressed decay amplitudes, and (iii) mixing allowing either direct $C P$ violation and/or $C P$ violation in the superpositions of flavor eigenstates defining the mass eigenstates. The data are also combined with those from a previous LHCb study of $D^0\to K \pi$ decays from a disjoint set of $ D^{*+} $ candidates produced directly in $pp$ collisions. In all cases, the data are consistent with the hypothesis of $C P$ symmetry.

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The time-integrated $ D ^0 \pi^+_s$ invariant mass distributions, after same-sign subtraction, for (a) RS decays and (b) WS decays. Fit projections are overlaid. Below each plot are the normalized residual distributions.	Fig1a.pdf [82 KiB] HiDef png [280 KiB] Thumbnail [263 KiB] *.C file
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Efficiency corrected and SS background subtracted ratios of WS/RS decays and fit projections for the DT sample. The top plot shows the $ D ^0$ $(R^+(t))$ sample. The middle plot shows the $\overline{ D }{} {}^0$ $(R^-(t))$ sample. The bottom plot shows the difference between the top and middle plots. In all cases, the error bars superposed on the data points are those from the $ \chi^2 $ minimization fits with no accounting for additional systematic uncertainties. The projections shown are for fits assuming $ C P$ symmetry (solid blue line), allowing no direct $CPV$ (dashed-dotted green line), and allowing all forms of $CPV$ (dashed magenta line). Bins are centered at the average value of $t/\tau$ of the bin.	Fig2.pdf [18 KiB] HiDef png [375 KiB] Thumbnail [363 KiB] *.C file
Efficiency-corrected data and fit projections for the DT (red open circles) and prompt (black filled circles) samples. The top plot shows the $ D ^0$ $(R^+(t))$ samples. The middle plot shows the $\overline{ D }{} {}^0$ $(R^-(t))$ samples. The bottom plot shows the difference between the top and middle plots. In all cases, the error bars superposed on the data points are those from the $ \chi^2 $ minimization fits without accounting for additional systematic uncertainties. The projections shown are for fits assuming $ C P$ symmetry (solid blue line), allowing no direct $CPV$ (dashed-dotted green line), and allowing all forms of $CPV$ (dashed magenta line). Bins are centered at the average $t/\tau$ of the bin.	Fig3.pdf [24 KiB] HiDef png [403 KiB] Thumbnail [351 KiB] *.C file
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Summary of systematic uncertainties for the DT analysis for each of the three fits described in the text.	Table_1.pdf [51 KiB] HiDef png [109 KiB] Thumbnail [45 KiB] tex code
Fitted parameters of the DT sample. The first uncertainties include the statistical uncertainty, as well as the peaking backgrounds and the $K\pi$ detection efficiency, and the second are systematic.	Table_2.pdf [53 KiB] HiDef png [329 KiB] Thumbnail [154 KiB] tex code
Simultaneous fit result of the DT and prompt samples. The prompt-only results from [1] are shown on the right for comparison. Statistical and systematic errors have been added in quadrature.	Table_3.pdf [55 KiB] HiDef png [255 KiB] Thumbnail [127 KiB] tex code
Systematic uncertainties for the simultaneous fits of the DT and prompt datasets.	Table_4.pdf [50 KiB] HiDef png [110 KiB] Thumbnail [45 KiB] tex code
Correlation matrix for the no $CPV$ fit to the DT data.	Table_5.pdf [45 KiB] HiDef png [41 KiB] Thumbnail [17 KiB] tex code
Correlation matrix for the no direct $CPV$ fit to the DT data.	Table_6.pdf [47 KiB] HiDef png [45 KiB] Thumbnail [21 KiB] tex code
Correlation matrix for the all $CPV$ allowed fit to the DT data.	Table_7.pdf [47 KiB] HiDef png [16 KiB] Thumbnail [20 KiB] tex code
Correlation matrix for the no $CPV$ simultaneous fit to the prompt + DT data sets.	Table_8.pdf [46 KiB] HiDef png [44 KiB] Thumbnail [18 KiB] tex code
Correlation matrix for the no direct $CPV$ simultaneous fit to the prompt + DT data sets.	Table_9.pdf [47 KiB] HiDef png [45 KiB] Thumbnail [21 KiB] tex code
Correlation matrix for the all $CPV$ allowed simultaneous fit to the prompt + DT data sets.	Table_10.pdf [47 KiB] HiDef png [17 KiB] Thumbnail [21 KiB] tex code

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