PRELIMINARY STUDY OF D0 ---> K PI PI0 DECAYS WITH DALITZ PLOTS
Particle physicists study the smallest particles and most basic rules of their interactions in humankind's current scope. The Charm Analysis Working Group (CWG) of the BaBar Collaboration studies decays involving the charm quark. They currently study mixing in D decays, an interesting and poorly understood phenomenon in current physics models. We, as part of the CWG, investigated the plausibility of using Dalitz plots and the BaBar analysis framework to study mixing in Wrong Sign (WS) D{sup 0} {yields} K{pi}{pi}{sup 0} decays. Others in the CWG have studied mixing in the 2-body decay, D{sup 0} {yields} K{pi}. The 3-body decay analyzed with the RooFitDalitz analysis package and Dalitz plots provides more information and another way of separating Doubly Cabibbo Suppressed Decays (DCSD) from mixing--which share the same end products. Through doing many simulations, we have demonstrated the usefulness of this approach. We selected D{sup 0} {yields} K{pi}{pi}{sup 0} events from Simulation Production run No.4 (SP4) and BaBar's run 1 and run 2. We made Dalitz plots with this data. Now that we better understand Dalitz plots and software, we plan to select WS D{sup 0} {yields} K{pi}{pi}{sup 0} events and perform rate fits as discussed in BaBar Analysis Document (BAD) No.443, as well as fits for several different decay times and resonances, in order to further distinguish DCSD from mixing.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 800024
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-9401; TRN: US200308%%384
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 19 Aug 2002
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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