Measurement of the Relative Amplitude and Strong Phase Between Antineutral D Meson Decaying to Kaon+ Resonance Kaon- and Neutral D Meson Decaying to Kaon+ Resonance Kaon- Via Dalitz Plot Analysis of Neutral D Meson Decaying to Kaon+ Kaon- Neutral Pion Decays PDF Download

Author: Paras P. Naik
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ISBN: 9781109885552
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Languages : en
Pages : 156

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I present physics concepts, which are useful to understand our analyses, and describe the CLEO III and CLEO-c experiments at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring. I also present motivations for a Dalitz plot analysis of the Cabibbo-suppressed charmed meson decay mode D0 → K+K-pi 0 at CLEO. The analysis uses 9.0 fb-1 of data collected at s ≈ 10.58 GeV with the CLEO III detector. We find the strong phase difference deltaD ≡ argAD 0→K*+K- AD0→K*+K - = 332° +/- 8° +/- 11° and relative amplitude rD ≡ AD0→ K*+K-A D0→K*+K- = 0.52 +/- 0.05 +/- 0.04. This measurement indicates significant destructive interference between D0 → K+(K-pi 0)K*- and D0 → K- (K+pi0) K*+ in the D 0 → K+ K-pi0 Dalitz plot region where these two modes overlap. The fit includes the K*+/- and &phis; resonances and a non-resonant amplitude, and the measured fit fractions for each resonance (with statistical uncertainty only) are (46.1 +/- 3.1)% for the K*+, (12.3 +/- 2.2)% for the K*-, (14.9 +/- 1.6)% for the &phis;, and (36.0 +/- 3.7)% for the non-resonant contribution. We find deltaD = 313° +/- 9° (stat.) and an amplitude ratio of rD = 0.52 +/- 0.05 (stat.) from a second fit which substitutes scalar kappa+/- (mass 878 MeV/c2, width 499 MeV/c2) amplitudes for the non-resonant amplitude. The measured fit fractions for each resonance (with statistical uncertainty only) are (48.1 +/- 4.5)% for the K*+, (12.9 +/- 2.6)% for the K*-, (16.1 +/- 1.9)% for the &phis;, (12.6 +/- 5.8)% for the kappa+, and (11.1 +/- 4.7)% for the kappa-. We also investigate the D 0 → K+K -pi0 Dalitz plot in 281 pb-1 of data collected at s ≈ 3.77 GeV with the CLEO-c detector. We find results which are consistent with the CLEO III analysis. I conclude by summarizing our results and present a brief appendix detailing the K-matrix formalism.