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Past exam of the particle physics course of the University of Oxford 2016 4 3 Solution by
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The right-sign denominator has its own small mixing contribution. In the same CP symmetry convention its decay amplitude is . After cancelling , the exact numerator and denominator areDefine and . Their Taylor expansions are and . Dividing the series gives the strict second-order answerThe usually quoted approximation additionally drops terms suppressed by powers of in the right-sign denominator:For and , this is for , and for . The first increases; the second initially decreases, reaches approximately at , then rises. The strict series instead has and . At the exact ratios are approximately and ; the leading approximations give and .
With no neutral meson mixing, and , so at all decay times. The wrong-sign signal then remains through direct doubly Cabibbo suppressed decay.
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