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4.2 Determination of semileptonic branching ratios at DANE

The semileptonic branching ratios of the can be measured at DANE by selecting the following final states , where , and is one of the allowed final states in decays ( or ). The probability of such events is obtained by integrating eq. (5)gif in the appropriate time intervalsgif. Therefore the number of events for initial pairs is given by:

 

where

 

As can be seen, is by far the dominant contribution; the branching ratio products in eq. (25) are predicted to be of the same order, while the interference term should be further suppressed by large cancellations. Therefore inserting the experimental value [24] eq. (25) becomes:

 

The project luminosity of DANE () gives about /year. Using eq. (22) and the present upper limit on the violation of the rule [24], we estimate and , therefore events/year are expected.

With these numbers we can estimate the sensitivity of DANE to CP, CPT and the rule violating parameters defined in eqs. (23) and (24). Since the final state can hardly be distinguished from the one, we conservatively assume that only electrons can be used to derive charge asymmetry. In this case the number of event is /year and the statistical error on turns out to be . Since the experimental value of charge asymmetry is [24], we expect , testing the CPT prediction at a significant level.

Eq. (24) (test of rule) involves the semileptonic rates of and ; thus to estimate the error on one has to take into account also the experimental errors on tagging branching ratios and on widths. Using the values in Ref. [24], these effects give a large contribution to the total error, which turns out to be , whereas the pure statistical contribution would give only . This large value for will perhaps be lowered by measuring all the quantities involved in the same experimental set-up.

 
Table 1: Comparison between the present experimental data [24], CPLEAR present and expected sensitivity [25] and the achievable sensitivity in 1 year at DANE, for the semileptonic parameters. For both CPLEAR and DANE only the statistical error has been reported. Note that and asymmetries have different theoretical expressions, for CPLEAR and DANE, if one considers CPT violation in the decay amplitudes.

In Table 1 we report the predicted sensitivity of DANE in comparison with other experiments. As one can see, DANE is very powerful to test rule.



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