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Measurement of the hadronic structure of semileptonicD0andD+decays

Authors :
R. E. Cassell
B. Nemati
G. P. Dubois
I. E. Stockdale
G. E. Gladding
T. Bolton
T. H. Burnett
Meng Wang
A. Li
A.C. Odian
D. G. Hitlin
T. Freese
K. O. Bunnell
Y. Zhu
D. Wisinski
H. J. Willutzki
C. A. Heusch
Christoph Grab
D.H. Coward
F. DeJongh
Cg Matthews
J. Drinkard
Allen Mincer
W. S. Lockman
Joseph Izen
R. Xu
Hartmut Sadrozinski
D.E. Dorfan
P. C. Kim
P. M. Mockett
J. S. Brown
Mark J. Burchell
R. Mir
C. Simopoulos
L. Parrish
A. Seiden
V. Cook
Z. Bai
D. Coffman
M. Scarlatella
U. Mallik
W. H. Toki
J. F. Labs
B. I. Eisenstein
S. Weseler
R. H. Schindler
D. Pitman
B. Tripsas
F. Villa
J. D. Richman
R. Partridge
Steven Wasserbaech
W. J. Wisniewski
G. Eigen
A. J.R. Weinstein
T. Schalk
C. Gatto
Source :
Physical Review Letters. 66:1011-1014
Publication Year :
1991
Publisher :
American Physical Society (APS), 1991.

Abstract

Absolute branching fractions for the {ital D}{sub {ital l}3} and {ital D}{sub {ital l}4} decays {ital D}{sup +}{r arrow}{ital {bar K}} {sup 0}{ital e+}{nu}{sub {ital e}}, {ital D}{sup +}{r arrow}{ital {bar K}} {sup 0}{mu}{sup +}{nu}{sub {mu}}, {ital D}{sup +}{r arrow}{ital {bar K}} {sup *0}{ital e+}{nu}{sub {ital e}}, and {ital D}{sup 0}{r arrow}{ital K}{sup *{minus}}{ital e+}{nu}{sub {ital e}} are determined using completely reconstructed {ital D{bar D}} events at the {psi}(3770). Reconstructed {ital D}{sup 0}{r arrow}{ital K}{sup {minus}}{ital e+}{nu}{sub {ital e}} decays are used to determine the pole mass of the {ital f}{sub 4}({ital q}{sup 2}) form factor. Resonant {ital K}{sup *} production dominates the process {ital D}{r arrow}{ital K}{pi}{ital e}{nu}; the {ital K}{sup *} polarization is measured. Limits on several Cabibbo-suppressed channels are evaluated. A global fit imposing isospin symmetry is performed to the measured exclusive and inclusive semileptonic {ital D}{sup 0} and {ital D}{sup +} branching fractions to obtain an improved set of branching fractions.

Details

ISSN :
00319007
Volume :
66
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical Review Letters
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........638813d51f8c73bf3e5223e8c4ed8621
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.66.1011