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Phenomenological Issues in the Determination of Delta Gamma_D

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We consider the issue of determining the D0-Dbar0 width difference Delta Gamma_D experimentally. The current situation is reviewed and suggestions for further study are given. We propose a number of D0 decay modes in addition to those studied in the recent E791, FOCUS and BELLE lifetime determination experiments. Then we address prospects for determining CF - CDS strong phase differences, like delta_{K pi} which appears in the CLEO study of D0 -> K+ pi- transitions. We show how to extract delta_{K* pi} with CDS data and furthermore show when D -> K_L pi data becomes available, that delta_{K pi} can also be obtained.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0102068,
  title  = {Phenomenological Issues in the Determination of Delta Gamma_D},
  author = {Eugene Golowich and Sandip Pakvasa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0102068},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages