Search for D0−D0 mixing and doubly-Cabibbo-suppressed decays of the D0 in hadronic final states

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-27

  Aitala, E M ^a   Amato, S ^a   Anjos, J C ^a   Appel, J A ^a   Ashery, D ^a   Banerjee, S ^a   Bediaga, I ^a   Blaylock, G ^a   Bracker, S B ^a   Burchat, P R ^a   Burnstein, R A ^a   Carter, T ^a   Carvalho, H S ^a   Copty, N K ^a   Cremaldi, L M ^a   Darling, C ^a   Fernandez, A ^a   Gagnon, P ^a   Gobel, C ^a   Gounder, K ^a   Halling, A M ^a   Herrera, G ^a   Hurvits, G ^a   James, C ^a   Kasper, P A ^a   Kwan, S ^a   Langs, D C ^a   Leslie, J ^a   Lundberg, B ^a   MayTal Beck, S ^a   Meadows, B ^a   de Mello Neto, J R T ^a   Milburn, R H ^a   de Miranda, J M ^a   Napier, A ^a   Nguyen, A ^a   d'Oliveira A B ^a   O'Shaughnessy K ^a   Peng, K C ^a   Perera, L P ^a   Purohit, M V ^a   Quinn, B ^a   Radeztsky, S ^a   Rafatian, A ^a   Reay, N W ^a   Reidy, J J ^a   dos Reis, A C ^a   Rubin, H A ^a   Santha, A K S ^a   Santoro, A F S ^a   Schwartz, A J ^a   Sheaff, M ^a   Sidwell, R A ^a   Slaughter, A J ^a   Sokoloff, M D ^a   Stanton, N R ^a   Stenson, K ^a   Summers, D J ^a   Takach, S ^a   Thorne, K ^a   Tripathi, A K ^a   Watanabe, S ^a   Weiss Babai, R ^a   Wiener, J ^a   Witchey, N ^a   Wolin, E ^a   Yi, D ^a   Yoshida, S ^a   Zaliznyak, R ^a   Zhang, C ^a   more..

^a CENTRO BRASILEIRO DE PESQUISAS FÍSICAS   (Brazil)

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EID: 0001917283     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.57.13     Document Type: Article

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