D^0 to K^{pm}pi^{mp} and CP Violation at a tau-charm Factory.pdf

Hep-Ph/9512216 (Phys. Lett. B) D 0 ! K    and CP Violation at a -charm Factory Zhi-zhong Xing 1 Sektion Physik, Theoretische Physik, Universitat Munchen, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333 Munchen, Germany Abstract We calculate the time-dependent and time-integrated decay rates of (D 0  D 0 ) ! (K    )(l  X  ) at the (3:77) and (4:14) resonances. The possibilities to distinguish between the eects of D 0  D 0 mixing and doubly Cabibbo suppressed decay (DCSD) are illustrated, and the signal of CP violation induced by the interplay of mixing and DCSD is discussed. Ratios of the decay rates of (D 0  D 0 )! (K    )(K    ) to that of (D 0  D 0 )! (K +  )(K  + ) are also recalculated by accommodating CP violation and nal-state interactions. 1 Electronic address: Xing@hep.physik.uni-muenchen.de 1 1. Introduction Recently some attention has been paid to the potential of searching for large D 0  D 0 mixing that is out of reach of the standard-model limitation, and to the possibility of probing signicant CP violation in the charm sector [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. The main experimental scenarios include the xed target facilities, the  -charm factories and the B-meson factories [6, 7, 8, 9]. Among various decay channels of neutral D mesons, D 0 vs  D 0 ! K    are of particular interest, in both theory and experiments, to study the eects of D 0  D 0 mixing and doubly Cabibbo suppressed decay (DCSD). In the standard model, the transitionsD 0 ! K  + and  D 0 ! K +  are Cabibbo favored. In contrast, D 0 ! K +  and  D 0 ! K  + are DCSDs. If there exists detectable D 0  D 0 mixing due to new physics, then the processes D 0 !  D 0 ! K +  and  D 0 ! D 0 ! K  + may compete with or even dominate over the respective DCSDs. Since any new physics is not likely to aect the direct decays of c quark (via the tree-levelW -mediated diagrams) in a signicant way [5, 10], one can use D 0 vs  D 0 ! K    to explore the magnitude of D 0