D^0 - D^0-bar Oscillations as a Probe of Quark-Hadron Duality

Abstract

It is usually argued that the Standard Model predicts slow D^0-\bar D^0 oscillations with ΔM_D, ΔΓ_D < 10^{-3}*Γ_D$ and that New Physics can reveal itself through ΔM_D exceeding 10^{-3}*Γ_D. It is believed that the bulk of the effect is due to long distance dynamics that cannot be described at the quark level. We point out that in general the OPE yields soft GIM suppression scaling only like (m_s/μ_{hadr})^2 and even like m_s/μ_{hadr} rather than m_s^4/m_c^4 of the simple quark box diagram. Such contributions can actually yield ΔM_D, ΔΓ_D \sim O(10^{-3})*Γ_D without invoking additional long distance effects. They are reasonably suppressed as long as the OPE and local duality are qualitatively applicable in the 1/m_c expansion. We stress the importance of improving the sensitivity on ΔΓ_D as well as ΔM_D in a dedicated fashion as a laboratory for analyzing the onset of quark-hadron duality and comment on the recent preliminary study on ΔΓ_D by the FOCUS group.

15 pages, LaTeX. Revised: A reference and a few clarifications in the text are added. A few inconsistencies in equations are eliminated. We found the standard contribution to Delta M_D to differ from the expression usually quoted in the literature

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