Observation of interference in D+ semileptonic decay into Kpmn

3/7/02


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Observation of interference in D+ semileptonic decay into Kpmn

Motivations for semileptonic charm physics

PPT Slide

The (Kp)mn is very accessible to experiment...

The FOCUS (Kp)mn signal

This decay is also very accessible to theory

Five observables are studied

Decay rate details

Form factor ratios as tests of LGT

What happened when we fit K*mn?

...and we found plenty

Nearly all the qV asymmetry was below the K* pole!

Developing an asymmetry through interference...

The Breit-Wigner interference would give the asymmetry a distinctive mass dependence

Angular momentum makes the prescription unique

For a small amplitude interference will dominate..

Studies of the acoplanarity-averaged interference

..but a broad resonant amplitude works just fine.

Dependence of asymmetry on cosql

Q2 dependence of asymmetry

Acoplanarity dependent interference terms

Acoplanarity dependence of the interference term

Mass dependence of the acoplanarity interference.

A note on our acoplanarity conventions

Saw apparent CP violation earlier. Was this it?

But surely an effect this large must have been observed before?

Did E791 see it?

BEATRICE??

Implications

The moral of the story....

Question slides

Resolution study

Author:

Email: cawlfiel@uiuc.edu

Home Page: http://web.hep.uiuc.edu/home/cac

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