First observation of $D^0-{\bar{D}}^0$ oscillations in $D^0\to K^{+}{\pi }^{-}{\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ decays and measurement of the associated coherence parameters

Abstract

Charm meson oscillations are observed in a time-dependent analysis of the ratio of $D^0\to K^{+}{\pi }^{-}{\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ to $D^0\to K^{-}{\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}{\pi }^{+}$ decay rates, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $3.0{\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$ recorded by the LHCb experiment. The measurements presented are sensitive to the phase-space averaged ratio of doubly Cabibbo-suppressed to Cabibbo-favoured amplitudes $r_D^{K3\pi }$ and the product of the coherence factor $R_D^{K3\pi }$ and a charm mixing parameter $y_{K3\pi }^{{}^{\prime }}$. The constraints measured are $r_D^{K3\pi }=(5.67\pm 0.12)\times 10^{-2}$, which is the most precise determination to date, and $R_D^{K3\pi }\cdot y_{K3\pi }^{{}^{\prime }}=(0.3\pm 1.8)\times 10^{-3}$, which provides useful input for determinations of the CP-violating phase $\gamma$ in $B^{\pm }\to D{K}^{\pm },D\to K^{\mp }{\pi }^{\pm }{\pi }^{\mp }{\pi }^{\pm }$ decays. The analysis also gives the most precise measurement of the $D^0\to K^{+}{\pi }^{-}{\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ branching fraction, and the first observation of $D^0-{\bar{D}}^0$ oscillations in this decay mode, with a significance of 8.2 standard deviations.

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