Evidence for the leptonic decay D→μνμ

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作者
Bai, JZ [1 ]
Bardon, O
Blum, I
Breakstone, A
Burnett, T
Chen, GP
Chen, HF
Chen, J
Chen, SJ
Chen, SM
Chen, Y
Chen, YB
Chen, YQ
Cheng, BS
Cowan, RF
Cui, XZ
Ding, HL
Du, ZZ
Dunwoodie, W
Fan, XL
Fang, J
Fero, M
Gao, CS
Gao, ML
Gao, SQ
Gratton, P
Gu, JH
Gu, SD
Gu, WX
Gu, YF
Guo, YN
Han, SW
Han, Y
Harris, FA
Hatanaka, M
He, J
He, M
Hitlin, DG
Hu, GY
Hu, T
Hu, XQ
Huang, DQ
Huang, YZ
Izen, JM
Jia, QP
Jiang, CH
Jin, S
Jin, Y
Jones, L
Kang, SH
机构
[1] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[2] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[3] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[4] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China
[5] Colorado State Univ, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
[6] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[7] Shandong Univ, Jinan 250100, Peoples R China
[8] Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr, Stanford, CA 94309 USA
[9] Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[10] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717 USA
[11] Univ Texas, Richardson, TX 75083 USA
[12] Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 中国国家自然科学基金;
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10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00313-X
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
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摘要
Purely leptonic decays of the charged D meson have been studied using the reaction e(+)e(-) --> D*D-+(-) at a center of mass energy of 4.03 GeV. A search was performed for D --> mu v(mu), recoiling against a D-0 or D+ which had been reconstructed from its hadronic decay products. A single event candidate was found in the reaction e(+)e(-) --> D*D-+(-), where D*(+) --> pi(+)D(0) with the D-0 --> K- pi(+), and the recoiling D- decaying via D- --> mu(-)(v) over bar(mu). This yields a branching fraction value (D --> mu v mu) = 0.08(- 0.05 - 0.02)(+ 0.16 + 0.05)% and a corresponding value of the pseudoscalar decay constant f(D) = 300(- 150 - 40)(+ 180 + 80) MeV. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:188 / 194
页数:7
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