Measurement of charm meson lifetimes

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作者
Bonvicini, G [1 ]
Cinabro, D
Greene, R
Perera, LP
Zhou, GJ
Chan, S
Eigen, G
Lipeles, E
Schmidtler, M
Shapiro, A
Sun, WM
Urheim, J
Weinstein, AJ
Würthwein, F
Jaffe, DE
Masek, G
Paar, HP
Potter, EM
Prell, S
Sharma, V
Asner, DM
Eppich, A
Gronberg, J
Hill, TS
Korte, CM
Lange, DJ
Morrison, RJ
Nelson, HN
Nelson, TK
Roberts, D
Tajima, H
Behrens, BH
Ford, WT
Gritsan, A
Krieg, H
Roy, J
Smith, JG
Alexander, JP
Baker, R
Bebek, C
Berger, BE
Berkelman, K
Boisvert, V
Cassel, DG
Crowcroft, DS
Dickson, M
von Dombrowski, S
Drell, PS
Dumas, DJ
Ecklund, KM
机构
[1] Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI 48202 USA
[2] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[3] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[4] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[5] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[6] Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[7] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[8] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[9] Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[10] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[11] Carleton Univ, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[12] McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[13] Ithaca Coll, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
[14] Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[15] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[16] SUNY Albany, Albany, NY 12222 USA
[17] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[18] Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA
[19] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[20] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[21] Stanford Univ, Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr, Stanford, CA 94309 USA
[22] So Methodist Univ, Dallas, TX 75275 USA
[23] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[24] Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN 37235 USA
[25] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[26] Comp Devices Canada, Nepean, ON K2H 5B7, Canada
[27] Univ Texas, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[28] Yonsei Univ, Seoul 120749, South Korea
[29] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4586
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We report measurements of the D-0, D-,(+) and D-s(+) meson lifetimes using 3.7 fb(-1) of e(+)e(-) annihilation data collected near the Y(4S) resonance with the CLEO detector. The measured lifetimes of the D-0, D+, and D-s(+) mesons are 408.5 +/- 4.1(-3.4)(+3.5) fs, 1033.6 +/- 22.1(-12.7)(+9.9) fs, and 486.3 +/- 15.0(-5.1)(+4.9) fs. The precisions of these lifetimes are comparable to those of the best previous measurements, and the systematic errors are very different. In a single experiment we find that the ratio of the D-s(+) and D-0 lifetimes is 1.19 +/- 0.04. [S0031-9007(99)09313-8].
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页数:5
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