Observation of the decays Ds-→φe-v and D-→K*0e-v

  • H. Albrecht
  • , H. Ehrlichmann
  • , T. Hamacher
  • , A. Krüger
  • , R. Mundt
  • , A. Nau
  • , A. Nippe
  • , T. Oest
  • , M. Reidenbach
  • , M. Schäfer
  • , W. Schmidt-Parzefall
  • , H. Schröder
  • , H. D. Schulz
  • , F. Sefkow
  • , R. Wurth
  • , R. D. Appuhn
  • , C. Hast
  • , G. Herrera
  • , H. Kolanoski
  • , A. Lange
  • A. Lindner, R. Mankel, M. Schieber, G. Schweda, T. Siegmund, B. Spaan, H. Thurn, A. Walther, D. Wegener, M. Paulini, K. Reim, U. Volland, H. Wegener, W. Funk, J. Stiewe, S. Werner, S. Ball, J. C. Gabriel, C. Geyer, A. Hölscher, W. Hofmann, B. Holzer, S. Khan, K. T. Knöpfle, J. Spengler, D. I. Britton, C. E.K. Charlesworth, K. W. Edwards, H. Kapitza, P. Krieger, R. Kutschke, D. B. MacFarlane, R. S. Orr, P. M. Patel, J. D. Prentice, S. C. Seidel, G. Tsipolitis, K. Tzamariudaki, R. van de Water, T. S. Yoon, D. Ressing, S. Schael, K. R. Schubert, K. Strahl, R. Waldi, S. Weseler, B. Boštjančič, G. Kernel, P. Križan, T. Živko, H. I. Cronström, L. Jönsson, A. Babaev, V. Balagura, M. Danilov, A. Droutskoy, B. Fominykh, A. Golutvin, I. Gorelov, F. Ratnikov, V. Lubimov, A. Rostovtsev, A. Semenov, S. Semenov, V. Shevchenko, V. Soloshenko, I. Tichomirov, Yu Zaitsev, R. Childers, C. W. Darden

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Abstract

Using the ARGUS detector at the e+e- storage ring DORIS II at DESY, we have studied semileptonic charmed meson decays through f{cyrillic}- and K*0-electron correlations in continuum production. Evidence for the decay D-s→f{cyrillic}e-v has been observed, with a branching ratio relative to the channel D-s→f{cyrillic}π- determined to be 0.57±0.15±0.15. The decay D-→K*0e-v was also seen, with a value of 0.55±0.08±0.10 extracted for the branching ratio relative to the channel D-→K+π-π-. The ratio of the two measurements, after application of SU(3) corrections, implies a branching ratio for D-s→f{cyrillic}π- of (2.4±1.0)%.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)634-638
Number of pages5
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume255
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Feb 1991
Externally publishedYes

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