Direct Measurement of Charmed D+ and D0 Semileptonic Branching Ratios
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
Measurements of the semileptonic branching ratios of charmed D+ and D0 mesons are presented, from data collected at the ψ(3770) in the Mark III detector at SPEAR. From a sample of events kinematically selected as charmed D+D- or D0 D-0 pairs, the branching ratios R(D+ → e+ + X) = (17.0 ± 1.9 ± 0.7)% and R(D0 → e+ + X) = ( 7.5 ± 1.1 ± 0.4)% are obtained. The ratio of these measurements can be interpreted as the ratio of D+ and D0 lifetimes $$\frac{τ^+}{τ^0}$$ = $$2.3^{+0.5+0.1}_{-0.4-0.1}$$ by neglect of the contribution of Cabibbo-suppressed decays to the total decay width.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- Contributing Organization:
- Mark III Collaboration
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 1447786
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 54, Issue 18; ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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