Short Distance Analysis of D^0-anti-D^0 Mixing

Details Short Distance Analysis of D^0-anti-D^0 Mixing Short Distance Analysis of D^0-anti-D^0 Mixing

2005-06-17

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0506185v1

Phys.Lett. B625 (2005) 53-62

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

14 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables, revtex

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2005.08.023

We study the Standard Model short-distance prediction for the mass and lifetime differences between the two neutral D meson mass eigenstates. We find that, despite \alpha_s/4\pi suppression, next-to-leading order (NLO) short-distance QCD corrections exceed the corresponding leading order (LO) amplitudes. For the lifetime difference, this stems from the lifting of helicity suppression of a light-quark intermediate state. We find y_D is given by y_NLO to a reasonable approximation but x_D is greatly affected by destructive interference between x_LO and x_NLO. The net effect is to render y_D ~ x_D ~ 6 x 10^{-7}. Our NLO short-distance results, still smaller than most long-distance estimates, depend on the same two nonperturbative matrix elements of four-quark operators as in leading order.

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