Observation of D0-D0bar oscillations

The LHCb Collaboration; Matthew Needham; Franz Muheim; Peter Clarke; Yuehong Xie; Stephan Eisenhardt

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.101802

Observation of D0-D0bar oscillations

The LHCb Collaboration, Matthew Needham, Franz Muheim, Peter Clarke, Yuehong Xie, Stephan Eisenhardt

School of Physics and Astronomy

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We report a measurement of the time-dependent ratio of D0->K+pi- to D0->K-pi+ decay rates in D*+-tagged events using 1.0 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity recorded by the LHCb experiment. We measure the mixing parameters x'2=(-0.9+-1.3)x10^{-4}, y'=(7.2+-2.4)x10^{-3} and the ratio of doubly-Cabibbo-suppressed to Cabibbo-favored decay rates R_D=(3.52+-0.15)x10^{-3}, where the uncertainties include statistical and systematic sources. The result excludes the no-mixing hypothesis with a probability corresponding to 9.1 standard deviations and represents the first observation of D0-D0bar oscillations from a single measurement.

Original language	English
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	101802
Early online date	6 Nov 2012
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.101802
Publication status	Published - 5 Mar 2013

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