Search for rare and forbidden decays of charm and charmed-strange mesons to final states h±e∓e+

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Rubin, P. [1 ]
Lowrey, N. [2 ]
Mehrabyan, S. [2 ]
Selen, M. [2 ]
Wiss, J. [2 ]
Libby, J. [3 ]
Kornicer, M. [4 ]
Mitchell, R. E. [4 ]
Shepherd, M. R. [4 ]
Tarbert, C. M. [4 ]
Besson, D. [5 ]
Pedlar, T. K. [6 ]
Xavier, J. [6 ]
Cronin-Hennessy, D. [7 ]
Hietala, J. [7 ]
Zweber, P. [7 ]
Dobbs, S. [8 ]
Metreveli, Z. [8 ]
Seth, K. K. [8 ]
Tomaradze, A. [8 ]
Xiao, T. [8 ]
Brisbane, S. [9 ]
Martin, L. [9 ]
Powell, A. [9 ]
Spradlin, P. [9 ]
Wilkinson, G. [9 ]
Mendez, H. [10 ]
Ge, J. Y. [11 ]
Miller, D. H. [11 ]
Shipsey, I. P. J. [11 ]
Xin, B. [11 ]
Adams, G. S. [12 ]
Hu, D. [12 ]
Moziak, B. [12 ]
Napolitano, J. [12 ]
Ecklund, K. M. [13 ]
Insler, J. [14 ]
Muramatsu, H. [14 ]
Park, C. S. [14 ]
Pearson, L. J. [14 ]
Thorndike, E. H. [14 ]
Yang, F. [14 ]
Ricciardi, S. [15 ]
Thomas, C. [9 ,15 ]
Artuso, M. [16 ]
Blusk, S. [16 ]
Mountain, R. [16 ]
Skwarnicki, T. [16 ]
Stone, S. [16 ]
Wang, J. C. [16 ]
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[1] George Mason Univ, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
[2] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[3] Indian Inst Technol, Madras 600036, Tamil Nadu, India
[4] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[5] Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[6] Luther Coll, Decorah, IA 52101 USA
[7] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[8] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[9] Univ Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
[10] Univ Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR 00681 USA
[11] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[12] Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Troy, NY 12180 USA
[13] Rice Univ, Houston, TX 77005 USA
[14] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[15] STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[16] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[17] Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI 48202 USA
[18] Univ Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, Avon, England
[19] Carleton Univ, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[20] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[21] Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[22] Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[23] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2010年 / 82卷 / 09期
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 英国科学技术设施理事会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
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10.1103/PhysRevD.82.092007
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We have searched for flavor-changing neutral current decays and lepton-number-violating decays of D+ and D-s(+) mesons to final states of the form h(perpendicular to)e(-/+)e(+), where h is either pi or K. We use the complete samples of CLEO-c open-charm data, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 818 pb(-1) at the center-of-mass energy E-CM = 3.774 GeV containing 2.4 x 10(6) D+D- pairs and 602 pb(-1) at E-CM 4.170 GeV containing 0.6 x 10(6) D-s(*+/-) D-s(-/+) pairs. No signal is observed in any channel, and we obtain 90% confidence level upper limits on branching fractions B(D+ -> pi(+)e(+)e(-)) < 5.9 x 10(-6), B(D+ -> pi(-)e(+)e(-)) < 1.1 x 10(-6), B(D+ -> K(+)e(+)e(-)) < 3.0 x 10(-6), B(D+ -> K(+)e(+)e(-)) < 3.5 x 10(-6), B(D-s(+) -> pi(+)e(+)e(-)) < 2.2 x 10(-5), B(D-s(+) -> pi(+)e(+)e(-)) < 1.8 x 10(-5), B(D-s(+) -> K(+)e(+)e(-)) < 5.2 x 10(-5), and B(D-s(+) -> K(-)e(+)e(+)) < 1.7 x 10(-5).
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