Seminars and Colloquia

M.Morello (Fermilab),"Measurement of CP violation in the D0->pi+pi- at CDF"

Europe/Rome
131 (INFN Edificio C)

131

INFN Edificio C

Description
We report a measurement of the CP violating asymmetry in D0->pi+pi- decays using approximately 215,000 decays reconstructed in about 5.94 fb-1 of CDF data. We use the strong D*+ -> D0pi+ decay ("D* tag'') to identify the flavor of the charmed meson at production time and exploit CP-conserving strong cc-bar pair-production in pp-bar collisions. Higher statistic samples of Cabibbo-favored D0 -> K-pi+ decays with and without D* tag are used to highly suppress systematic uncertainties due to detector effects. The result, ACP(D0->pi+pi-) = 0.22+-0.24 (stat)+-0.11 (syst) %, is the world's most precise measurement to date and it is fully consistent with no CP violation.
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