1. Measurement of the Ds lifetime
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E.M. Aitala, S. Amato, J.C. Anjos, J.A. Appel, D. Ashery, S. Banerjee, I. Bediaga, G. Blaylock, S.B. Bracker, P.R. Burchat, R.A. Burnstein, T. Carter, H.S. Carvalho, N.K. Copty, L.M. Cremaldi, C. Darling, K. Denisenko, A. Fernandez, G.F. Fox, P. Gagnon, C. Gobel, K. Gounder, A.M. Halling, G. Herrera, G. Hurvits, C. James, P.A. Kasper, S. Kwan, D.C. Langs, J. Leslie, B. Lundberg, S. MayTal-Beck, B. Meadows, J.R.T. de Mello Neto, D. Mihalcea, R.H. Milburn, J.M. de Miranda, A. Napier, A. Nguyen, A.B. d'Oliveira, K. O'Shaughnessy, K.C. Peng, L.P. Perera, M.V. Purohit, B. Quinn, S. Radeztsky, A. Rafatian, N.W. Reay, J.J. Reidy, A.C. dos Reis, H.A. Rubin, D.A. Sanders, A.K.S. Santha, A.F.S. Santoro, A.J. Schwartz, M. Sheaff, R.A. Sidwell, A.J. Slaughter, M.D. Sokoloff, J. Solano, N.R. Stanton, R.J. Stefanski, K. Stenson, D.J. Summers, S. Takach, K. Thorne, A.K. Tripathi, S. Watanabe, R. Weiss-Babai, J. Wiener, N. Witchey, E. Wolin, S.M. Yang, D. Yi, S. Yoshida, R. Zaliznyak, and C. Zhang
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Physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Meson ,Maximum likelihood ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Charm (quantum number) ,Fermilab ,Measure (mathematics) ,Standard deviation ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
We report the results of a precise measurement of the Ds meson lifetime based on 1662 +/- 56 fully reconstructed Ds -> phi pi decays, from the charm hadroproduction experiment E791 at Fermilab. Using an unbinned maximum likelihood fit, we measure the Ds lifetime to be 0.518 +/- 0.014 +/- 0.007 ps. The ratio of the measured Ds lifetime to the world average D0 lifetime is 1.25 +/- 0.04. This result differs from unity by six standard deviations, indicating significantly different lifetimes for the Ds and the D0., 12 pages, 3 figures, 2 table. LaTeX
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- 1999