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Measurement of the Difference in CP-Violating Asymmetries in D[superscript 0]→K[superscript +]K[superscript -] and D[superscript 0]→π[superscript +]π[superscript -] Decays at CDF

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Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Paus, Christoph M. E.
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Abstract
We report a measurement of the difference (ΔACP) between time-integrated CP-violating asymmetries in D[superscript 0]→K[superscript +]K[superscript -] and D[superscript 0]→π[superscript +]π[superscript -] decays reconstructed in the full data set of proton-antiproton collisions collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab, corresponding to 9.7  fb[superscript -1] of integrated luminosity. The strong decay D[superscript *+]→D[superscript 0]π[superscript +] is used to identify the charm meson at production as D[superscript 0] or D̅[superscript 0]. We measure ΔACP=[-0.62±0.21(stat)±0.10(syst)]%, which differs from zero by 2.7 Gaussian standard deviations. This result supports similar evidence for CP violation in charm-quark decays obtained in proton-proton collisions.
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2012-09
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75771
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Aaltonen, T. et al. “Measurement of the Difference in CP-Violating Asymmetries in D[superscript 0]→K[superscript +]K[superscript -] and D[superscript 0]→π[superscript +]π[superscript -] Decays at CDF.” Physical Review Letters 109.11 (2012). © 2012 American Physical Society
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0031-9007
1079-7114

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