Analysis of $CP$ violation in $ D^0 \to K^+ K^- \pi^0 $

Abstract

We study the $\mathit{CP}$ violation induced by the interference between two intermediate resonances $K^*(892)^+$ and $K^*(892)^-$ in the phase space of singly-Cabibbo-suppressed decay $D^0 \to K^+K^-\pi^0$. We adopt the factorization-assisted topological approach in dealing with the decay amplitudes of $D^0 \to K^\pm K^*(892)^\mp$. The $\mathit{CP}$ asymmetries of two-body decays are predicted to be very tiny, which are $(-1.27 \pm 0.25) \times 10^{-5}$ and $(3.86 \pm 0.26) \times 10^{-5}$ respectively for $D^0 \to K^+ K^*(892)^-$ and $D^0 \to K^- K^*(892)^+$. While the differential $\mathit{CP}$ asymmetry of $D^0 \to K^+K^-\pi^0$ is enhanced because of the interference between the two intermediate resonances, which can reach as large as $3\times10^{-4}$. For some NPs which have considerable impacts on the chromomagnetic dipole operator $O_{8g}$, the global $\mathit{CP}$ asymmetries of $D^0 \to K^+ K^*(892)^- $ and $D^0 \to K^- K^*(892)^+ $ can be then increased to $(0.56\pm0.08)\times10^{-3}$ and $(-0.50\pm0.04)\times10^{-3}$, respectively. The regional $\mathit{CP}$ asymmetry in the overlapped region of the phase space can be as large as $( 1.3\pm 0.3)\times10^{-3}$.