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Strong phases and D0-anti-D0 mixing parameters

Adam F. Falk, Yosef Nir, Alexey A. Petrov

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9911369

Abstract

We argue that there could be large, SU(3) violating resonance contributions to D -> K pi decays which would affect the extraction of the D0-anti-D0 mixing parameters from experiment. Such contributions can induce a large strong phase in the interference between the doubly Cabibbo suppressed and the mixing induced Cabibbo favored contributions to the D0 -> K+ pi- and anti-D0 -> K- pi+ decays. Consequently, the interpretation of a large, CP conserving interference term can involve a large mass difference Delta M rather than a large width difference Delta Gamma.

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