Testing for new physics in singly Cabibbo suppressed D decays

Yuval Grossman, Alexander L. Kagan, Jure Zupan

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Abstract

We devise tests for a new physics origin of the recently measured direct CP violation in singly Cabibbo-suppressed D decays. The tests take the form of sum rules for the CP asymmetries in various D decays. They are based on the fact that within the standard model CP violation arises from interference of the dominant tree amplitudes with the ΔI=1/2 penguin amplitudes. The sum rules would be violated if the observed CP violation is due to new physics contributions to the effective weak Hamiltonian that change the isospin by ΔI=3/2.

Original languageEnglish
Article number114036
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume85
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Jun 2012
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Science Foundation
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences0757868

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