Absolute measurement of hadronic branching fractions of the Ds+ meson

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作者
Alexander, J. P. [1 ]
Berkelman, K. [1 ]
Cassel, D. G. [1 ]
Duboscq, J. E. [1 ]
Ehrlich, R. [1 ]
Fields, L. [1 ]
Gibbons, L. [1 ]
Gray, R. [1 ]
Gray, S. W. [1 ]
Hartill, D. L. [1 ]
Heltsley, B. K. [1 ]
Hertz, D. [1 ]
Jones, C. D. [1 ]
Kandaswamy, J. [1 ]
Kreinick, D. L. [1 ]
Kuznetsov, V. E. [1 ]
Mahlke-Kruger, H. [1 ]
Mohapatra, D. [1 ]
Onyisi, P. U. E. [1 ]
Patterson, J. R. [1 ]
Peterson, D. [1 ]
Riley, D. [1 ]
Ryd, A. [1 ]
Sadoff, A. J. [1 ]
Shi, X. [1 ]
Stroiney, S. [1 ]
Sun, W. M. [1 ]
Wilksen, T. [1 ]
Athar, S. B.
Patel, R. [2 ]
Yelton, J. [2 ]
Rubin, P. [3 ]
Eisenstein, B. I. [4 ]
Karliner, I. [4 ]
Mehrabyan, S. [4 ]
Lowrey, N. [4 ]
Selen, M. [4 ]
White, E. J. [4 ]
Wiss, J. [4 ]
Mitchell, R. E. [5 ]
Shepherd, M. R. [5 ]
Besson, D. [6 ]
Pedlar, T. K. [7 ]
Cronin-Hennessy, D. [8 ]
Gao, K. Y. [8 ]
Hietala, J. [8 ]
Kubota, Y. [8 ]
Klein, T. [8 ]
Lang, B. W. [8 ]
Poling, R. [8 ]
机构
[1] Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[2] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[3] George Mason Univ, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
[4] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[5] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[6] Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[7] Luther Coll, Iowa City, IA 52101 USA
[8] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[9] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[10] Univ Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
[11] SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260 USA
[12] Univ Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
[13] Univ Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR 00681 USA
[14] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[15] Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Troy, NY 12180 USA
[16] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[17] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[18] Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI 48202 USA
[19] Univ Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, Avon, England
[20] Carleton Univ, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[21] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[22] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 英国科学技术设施理事会;
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.161804
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The branching fractions of D-s(+/-) meson decays serve to normalize many measurements of processes involving charm quarks. Using 298 pb(-1) of e(+)e(-) collisions recorded at a center of mass energy of 4.17 GeV, we determine absolute branching fractions for eight D-s(+/-) decays with a double tag technique. In particular we determine the branching fraction B(D-s(+)-> K-K+pi(+))=(5.50 +/- 0.23 +/- 0.16)%, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. We also provide partial branching fractions for kinematic subsets of the K-K+pi(+) decay mode.
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