Search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay D/sup 0/ to mu /sup +/ mu /sup n/ pp collisions at square root s =1.96 TeV

Acosta, D. et al. (2003) Search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay D/sup 0/ to mu /sup +/ mu /sup n/ pp collisions at square root s =1.96 TeV. Physical Review D, 68(9), p. 91101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.091101)

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Abstract

We report on a search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay D/sup 0/ to mu /sup +/ mu /sup -/ in pp collisions at square root s=1.96 TeV using 65 pb/sup -1/ of data collected by the CDF II experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. A displaced-track trigger selects long-lived D/sup 0/ candidates in the D/sup 0/ to mu /sup +/ mu /sup -/ search channel, the kinematically similar D/sup 0/ to pi /sup +/ pi /sup -/ channel used for normalization, the Cabibbo-favored D/sup 0/ to K/sup -/ pi /sup +/ channel used to optimize the selection criteria in an unbiased manner, and their charge conjugates. Finding no signal events in the D/sup 0/ to mu /sup +/ mu /sup -/ search window, we set an upper limit on the branching fraction B(D/sup 0/ to mu /sup +/ mu /sup -/) lt or=2.5*10/sup -6/ (3.3*10/sup -6/) at the 90% (95%) confidence level.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:D'Auria, Dr Saverio and Bell, Dr William
Authors: Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Ahn, M.H., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., Anastassov, A., Anikeev, K., Annovi, A., Antos, J., Aoki, M., Apollinari, G., Arguin, J.F., Arisawa, T., Artikov, A., Asakawa, T., Ashmanskas, W., Attal, A., Azfar, F., Azzi-Bacchetta, P., Bacchetta, N., Bachacou, H., Badgett, W., Bailey, S., Barbaro-Galtieri, A., Barker, G., Barnes, V.E., Barnett, B.A., Baroiant, S., Barone, M., Bauer, G., Bedeschi, F., Behari, S., Belforte, S., Bell, W.H., Bellettini, G., Bellinger, J., Benjamin, D., Beretvas, A., Bhatti, A., Binkley, M., Bisello, D., Bishai, M., Blair, R.E., Blocker, C., Bloom, K., Blumenfeld, B., Bocci, A., Bodek, A., Bolla, G., Bolshov, A., Booth, P.S.L., Bortoletto, D., Boudreau, J., Bourov, S., Bromberg, C., Brozovic, M., Brubaker, E., Budagov, J., Budd, H.S., Burkett, K., Busetto, G., Bussey, P., Byrum, K.L., Cabrera, S., Calafiura, P., Campanelli, M., Campbell, M., Canepa, A., Carlsmith, D., Carron, S., Carosi, R., Casarsa, M., Caskey, W., Castro, A., Catastini, P., Cauz, D., Cerri, A., Cerri, C., Cerrito, L., Chapman, J.N., Chen, C., Chen, Y.C., Chertok, M., Chiarelli, G., Chlachidze, G., Chlebana, F., Cho, K., Chokheli, D., Chu, M.L., Chung, J.Y., Chung, W.H., Chung, Y.S., Ciobanu, C.I., Ciocci, M.A., Clark, A.G., Coca, M.N., Connolly, A., Convery, M.E., Conway, J., Cordelli, M., Cortiana, G., Cranshaw, J., Culbertson, R., Currat, C., Cyr, D., Dagenhart, D., DaRonco, S., D'Auria, S., de Barbaro, P., De Cecco, S., Dell'Agnello, S., Dell'Orso, M., Demers, S., Demortier, L., Deninno, M., De Pedis, D., Derwent, P.F., Dionisi, C., Dittmann, J.R., Doksus, P., Dominguez, A., Donati, S., D'Onofrio, M., Dorigo, T., Drollinger, V., Ebina, K., Eddy, N., Ely, R., Erbacher, R., Erdmann, M., Errede, D., Errede, S., Eusebi, R., Fang, H.C., Farrington, S., Fedorko, I., Feild, R.G., Feindt, M., Fernandez, J.P., Ferretti, C., Field, R.D., Fiori, I., Flanagan, G., Flaugher, B., Flores-Castillo, L.R., Foland, A., Forrester, S., Foster, G.W., Franklin, M., Frisch, H., Fujii, Y., Furic, I., Gallas, A., Gallinaro, M., Galyardt, J., Garcia-Sciveres, M., Garfinkel, A.F., Gay, C., Gerberich, H., Gerchtein, E., Gerdes, D.W., Giagu, S., Giannetti, P., Gibson, A., Gibson, K., Ginsburg, C., Giolo, K., Giordani, M., Giurgiu, G., Glagolev, V., Glenzinski, D., Gold, M., Goldschmidt, N., Goldstein, D., Goldstein, J., Gomez, G., Gomez-Ceballos, G., Goncharov, M., Gorelov, I., Goshaw, A.T., Gotra, Y., Goulianos, K., Gresele, A., Grim, G., Grosso-Pilcher, C., Guenther, M., da Costa, J.G., Haber, C., Hahn, K., Hahn, S.R., Halkiadakis, E., Hall, C., Handler, R., Happacher, F., Hara, K., Hare, M., Harr, R.F., Harris, R.M., Hartmann, F., Hatakeyama, K., Hauser, J., Hays, C., Heider, E., Heinemann, B., Heinrich, J., Hennecke, M., Herndon, M., Hill, C., Hirschbuehl, D., Hocker, A., Hoffman, K.D., Holloway, A., Hou, S., Houlden, M.A., Huffman, B.T., Hughes, R.E., Huston, J., Ikado, K., Incandela, J., Introzzi, G., Iori, M., Ishizawa, Y., Issever, C., Ivanov, A., Iwata, Y., Iyutin, B., James, E., Jang, D., Jarrell, J., Jeans, D., Jensen, H., Jones, M., Jun, S.Y., Junk, T., Kamon, T., Kang, J., Unel, M.K., Karchin, P.E., Kartal, S., Kato, Y., Kemp, Y., Kephart, R., Kerzel, U., Khazins, D., Khotilovich, V., Kilminster, B., Kim, B.J., Kim, D.H., Kim, H.S., Kim, J.E., Kim, M.J., Kim, M.S., and Kim, S.B.
Subjects:Q Science > QC Physics
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Journal Name:Physical Review D
Publisher:American Physical Society
ISSN:1550-7998
ISSN (Online):1089-4918

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