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D0-D0bar Mixing

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The main challenge in the Standard Model calculation of the mass and width difference in D0Dˉ0D^0 - \bar D^0 mixing is to estimate the size of SU(3) breaking. We prove that mixing occurs in the Standard Model only at second order in SU(3) violation. We calculate SU(3) breaking due to phase space effects, and find that it can naturally give rise to a width difference ΔΓ/2Γ1\Delta\Gamma / 2\Gamma \sim 1%, potentially reducing the sensitivity of D mixing to new physics.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0205316,
  title  = {D0-D0bar Mixing},
  author = {Zoltan Ligeti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0205316},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages; Talk given at the XXXVIIth Rencontres de Moriond, Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, Les Arcs, March 9-16 2002; and at the 9th International Symposium on Heavy Flavor Physics, Pasadena, California, September 10-13 2001