Searches for CP violation in two-body charm decays

Abstract

The LHCb experiment recorded data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 $fb^{-1}$ during its first run of data taking. These data yield the largest samples of charmed hadrons in the world and are used to search for CP violation in the $D^0$ system. Among the many measurements performed at LHCb, a measurement of the direct CP asymmetry in $D^0 \rightarrow K_S^0 K_S^0$ decays is presented and is found to be $A_{CP}(D^0 \rightarrow K_S^0 K_S^0) = (-2.9 \pm 5.2 \pm 2.2)\, \%, $ where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. This represents a significant improvement in precision over the previous measurement of this parameter. Measurements of the parameter $A^Γ$, defined as the CP asymmetry of the $D^0$ effective lifetime when decaying to a CP eigenstate, are also presented. Using semi-leptonic b-hadron decays to tag the flavour of the $D^0$ meson at production with the $K^+K^-$ and $π^+π^-$ final states yields $A^Γ(K^+K^-) = (-0.134 \pm 0.077^{+0.026}_{-0.034})\, \%,$ $A^Γ(π^+π^-) = (-0.092 \pm 0.145^{+0.025}_{-0.033})\, \%. $ Thus no evidence of direct or indirect CP violation in the $D^0$ system is found, though it is tightly constrained.

Proceedings for The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics, 22-29 July 2015, Vienna, Austria. On behalf of the LHCb collaboration