1. Improved measurement of the pseudoscalar decay constant f(D-s)
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M. Chada, J. Zheng, D. H. Miller, D. He, P. Gaidarev, A. Wolf, H. Kagan, P. C. Kim, D. L. Kreinick, C. Bebek, G. Masek, Juliet Ritchie Patterson, M.A. Palmer, Vivek Sharma, A. Smith, T. E. Browder, S. B. Athar, Xingjiang Zhou, S. Roberts, J. J. O'Neill, Horst Severini, J. Urheim, P. Skubic, R. Godang, R. J. Morrison, Mats A Selen, K. W. Edwards, R. A. Briere, A. J. Sadoff, S. E. Csorna, D. Riley, A. Undrus, H. Yamamoto, L. P. Perera, T. K. Nelson, M. Dickson, G. C. Moneti, M. M. Zoeller, G. J. Zhou, J. Roy, M. Yurko, K. Kinoshita, M. B. Spencer, P. S. Drell, T. Lee, M. Schmidtler, Anders Ryd, Ryszard Stroynowski, G. W. Brandenburg, G. E. Gladding, J. Bartelt, Philip Baringer, T. Bergfeld, I. Narsky, Sz Márka, K. Lingel, D. W. Bliss, Y. Kwon, V. Savinov, Xiangjun Xing, D. L. Hartill, K. M. Ecklund, R. Poling, J. Ernst, M. L. Perl, D. Cinabro, B. Nemati, D. Z. Besson, H. Marsiske, Yuichi Kubota, B. Gittelman, S. Patton, C. R. Ng, C. Darling, Richard L. Greene, E. H. Thorndike, E. I. Shibata, K. K. Gan, A. Anastassov, I. Korolkov, R. M. Hans, B. K. Heltsley, J. S. Miller, S. J. Lee, B. H. Behrens, John Yelton, G. D. Gollin, Richard Wilson, L. K. Gibbons, V. Fadeyev, R. Baker, Y. S. Gao, D. Coppage, G. Bonvicini, J. P. Alexander, E. Johnson, J. Fast, A. D. Foland, J. Kandaswamy, H. P. Paar, S. Glenn, P. I. Hopman, M. Sung, R. Mountain, N. Kwak, M. Bishai, B. Valant-Spaight, D. Roberts, M. Ogg, S. Kotov, P. Pomianowski, A. H. Mahmood, R. Janicek, T. S. Hill, R. Ehrlich, J. Staeck, A. Soffer, Karl Berkelman, S. Anderson, C.Y. Prescott, E. Nordberg, A. Efimov, Alain Bellerive, S. Schuh, Harold S. Park, Alice Bean, J. J. Thaler, D. M. Asner, C. Ward, Y. Li, D. S. Crowcroft, V. Boisvert, D. B. MacFarlane, A. J. Weinstein, P. M. Patel, Tomasz Skwarnicki, J. Gronberg, M. Athanas, Jianqiao Ye, L. Zhou, S.C. Timm, Kenneth Bloom, Ilya Kravchenko, H. N. Nelson, C. D. Jones, M. Lohner, Jungil Lee, S. J. Richichi, V. Shelkov, G. Eigen, N. Menon, K. Honscheid, Dj Lange, D. Peterson, J. W. Hinson, K. W. McLean, Sacha E Kopp, M. S. Alam, F. R. Wappler, J. E. Duboscq, D. G. Cassel, Yurii Maravin, S. Schrenk, Yanwen Liu, J. G. Smith, C. P. Jessop, S. D. Johnson, S. Prell, T. Hart, S. von Dombrowski, T. Riehle, I. Karliner, J. L. Rodriguez, D. Ugolini, S. W. Gray, B. I. Eisenstein, Frank Würthwein, G. Viehhauser, N. B. Mistry, W. R. Ross, I. Volobouev, A. Ershov, R. Davis, Sheldon Stone, Paul Avery, Z. Ling, W. T. Ford, R. D. Kass, R. Balest, I. P.J. Shipsey, Marina Artuso, D. Y.J. Kim, D. Fujino, B. E. Berger, R. Ammar, T. E. Coan, I. C. Lai, S. Chan, M. Goldberg, C. O'Grady, M. A. Marsh, R. Wang, Vivek Jain, and F. Azfar
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,01 natural sciences ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Pseudoscalar ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,Particle decay ,0103 physical sciences ,Exponential decay ,Neutrino ,010306 general physics ,GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries) - Abstract
We present a new determination of the Ds decay constant, f_{Ds} using 5 million continuum charm events obtained with the CLEO II detector. Our value is derived from our new measured ratio of widths for Ds -> mu nu/Ds -> phi pi of 0.173+/- 0.021 +/- 0.031. Taking the branching ratio for Ds -> phi pi as (3.6 +/- 0.9)% from the PDG, we extract f_{Ds} = (280 +/- 17 +/- 25 +/- 34){MeV}. We compare this result with various model calculations., 23 page postscript file, postscript file also available through http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS
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- 2016