Observation of $D^0$ meson decays to $\pi^+\pi^-\mu^+\mu^-$ and $K^+K^-\mu^+\mu^-$ final states

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LHCb-PAPER-2017-019
CERN-EP-2017-167
arXiv:1707.08377 [PDF]

(Submitted on 26 Jul 2017)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 (2017) 181805
Inspire 1611681

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Abstract

The first observation of the $D^0 \to \pi^+\pi^-\mu^+\mu^-$ and $D^0 \to K^+K^-\mu^+\mu^-$ decays is reported using a sample of proton-proton collisions collected by LHCb at a center-of-mass energy of 8$ $TeV, and corresponding to 2$ $fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity. The corresponding branching fractions are measured using as normalization the decay $D^0 \to K^- \pi^+[\mu^+\mu^-]_{\rho^0/\omega}$, where the two muons are consistent with coming from the decay of a $\rho^0$ or $\omega$ meson. The results are $\mathcal{B}(D^0 \to \pi^+\pi^-\mu^+\mu^-)=(9.64\pm0.48\pm0.51\pm0.97)\times10^{-7}$ and $\mathcal{B}(D^0 \to K^+K^-\mu^+\mu^-)=( 1.54\pm0.27\pm0.09\pm0.16)\times10^{-7}$, where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and due to the limited knowledge of the normalization branching fraction. The dependence of the branching fraction on the dimuon mass is also investigated.

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Example diagrams describing the (left) short- and (right) long-distance contributions to $ D ^0 \rightarrow h^+h^-\mu^+\mu^-$ decays, where $q=d,s$ and $h=\pi,K$.	Fig1.pdf [84 KiB] HiDef png [112 KiB] Thumbnail [76 KiB] *.C file
Distributions of $ m( D ^0 )$ for the $ D ^0 \rightarrow \pi ^+ \pi ^- \mu^+\mu^-$ candidates in the low- $ m(\mu ^+ \mu ^- )$ , $\eta$, $\rho ^0 /\omega $, $\phi$ and high- $ m(\mu ^+ \mu ^- )$ regions. Fit projections are overlaid.	Fig2.pdf [39 KiB] HiDef png [571 KiB] Thumbnail [443 KiB] *.C file
Distributions of $ m( D ^0 )$ for the $ D ^0 \rightarrow K ^+ K ^- \mu^+\mu^-$ candidates in the low- $ m(\mu ^+ \mu ^- )$ , $\eta$ and $\rho ^0 /\omega $ regions. Fit projections are overlaid. No fit is performed in the $\eta$ region, where only two candidates are observed.	Fig3.pdf [22 KiB] HiDef png [281 KiB] Thumbnail [246 KiB] *.C file
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Yields of (top) $ D ^0 \rightarrow \pi ^+ \pi ^- \mu^+\mu^-$ and (bottom) $ D ^0 \rightarrow K ^+ K ^- \mu^+\mu^-$ signal decays, their significance with respect to the background-only hypothesis, and ratio of efficiencies between signal and normalization decays ($R_\epsilon^i$) for each dimuon-mass region. The yield and the significance ($\mathcal{S}$) are not reported for the $\eta$ region of $ D ^0 \rightarrow K ^+ K ^- \mu^+\mu^-$ , where only two candidates are observed.	Table_1.pdf [56 KiB] HiDef png [102 KiB] Thumbnail [51 KiB] tex code
Branching fractions of (top) $ D ^0 \rightarrow \pi ^+ \pi ^- \mu^+\mu^-$ and (bottom) $ D ^0 \rightarrow K ^+ K ^- \mu^+\mu^-$ decays in different ranges of dimuon mass, where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic and due to the limited knowledge of the normalization branching fraction. The reported upper limits correspond to 90% (95%) CL. The correlations between the various dimuon-mass ranges are reported in the supplemental material [23].	Table_2.pdf [48 KiB] HiDef png [112 KiB] Thumbnail [56 KiB] tex code
Correlation coefficients between the $ D ^0 \rightarrow \pi ^+ \pi ^- \mu^+\mu^-$ branching fractions in the dimuon-mass ranges.	Table_3.pdf [43 KiB] HiDef png [54 KiB] Thumbnail [25 KiB] tex code
Correlation coefficients between the $ D ^0 \rightarrow K ^+ K ^- \mu^+\mu^-$ branching fractions in the dimuon-mass ranges.	Table_4.pdf [42 KiB] HiDef png [64 KiB] Thumbnail [28 KiB] tex code

Supplementary Material [file]

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