Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: We present measurements of the inclusive branching fractions for the decays ${D}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}X{e}^{+}{\ensuremath{\nu}}_{e}$ and ${D}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}X{e}^{+}{\ensuremath{\nu}}_{e}$, using $281\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{pb}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ of data collected on the $\ensuremath{\psi}(3770)$ resonance with the CLEO-c detector. We find $\mathcal{B}({D}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}X{e}^{+}{\ensuremath{\nu}}_{e})=(6.46\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.17\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.13)%$ and $\mathcal{B}({D}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}X{e}^{+}{\ensuremath{\nu}}_{e})=(16.13\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.20\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.33)%$. Using the known $D$ meson lifetimes, we obtain the ratio ${\ensuremath{\Gamma}}_{{D}^{+}}^{\mathrm{sl}}/{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}_{{D}^{0}}^{\mathrm{sl}}=0.985\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.028\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.015$, confirming isospin invariance at the level of 3%. The positron momentum spectra from ${D}^{+}$ and ${D}^{0}$ have consistent shapes.
Source: Physical Review Letters
Authors: N. E. Adam, J. P. Alexander, K. Berkelman, D. G. Cassel, J. E. Duboscq, K. M. Ecklund, R. Ehrlich, L. Fields, L. Gibbons, R. Gray, S. W. Gray, D. L. Hartill, B. K. Heltsley, D. Hertz, C. D. Jones, J. Kandaswamy, D. L. Kreinick, V. E. Kuznetsov, H. Mahlke-Krüger, T. O. Meyer, P. U. E. Onyisi, J. R. Patterson, D. Peterson, J. Pivarski, D. Riley, A. Ryd, A. J. Sadoff, H. Schwarthoff, X. Shi, S. Stroiney, W. M. Sun, T. Wilksen, M. Weinberger, S. B. Athar, R. Patel, V. Potlia, H. Stoeck, J. Yelton, P. Rubin, C. Cawlfield, B. I. Eisenstein, I. Karliner, D. Kim, N. Lowrey, P. Naik, C. Sedlack, M. Selen, E. J. White, J. Wiss, M. R. Shepherd, D. Besson, T. K. Pedlar, D. Cronin-Hennessy, K. Y. Gao, D. T. Gong, J. Hietala, Y. Kubota, T. Klein, B. W. Lang, R. Poling, A. W. Scott, A. Smith, S. Dobbs, Z. Metreveli, K. K. Seth, A. Tomaradze, P. Zweber, J. Ernst, H. Severini, S. A. Dytman, W. Love, V. Savinov, O. Aquines, Z. Li, A. Lopez, S. Mehrabyan, H. Mendez, J. Ramirez, G. S. Huang, D. H. Miller, V. Pavlunin, B. Sanghi, I. P. J. Shipsey, B. Xin, G. S. Adams, M. Anderson, J. P. Cummings, I. Danko, J. Napolitano, Q. He, J. Insler, H. Muramatsu, C. S. Park, E. H. Thorndike, T. E. Coan, Y. S. Gao, F. Liu, M. Artuso, S. Blusk, J. Butt, J. Li, N. Menaa, R. Mountain, S. Nisar, K. Randrianarivony, R. Redjimi, R. Sia, T. Skwarnicki, S. Stone, J. C. Wang, K. Zhang, S. E. Csorna, G. Bonvicini, D. Cinabro, M. Dubrovin, A. Lincoln, D. M. Asner, K. W. Edwards, R. A. Briere, I. Brock, J. Chen, T. Ferguson, G. Tatishvili, H. Vogel, M. E. Watkins, J. L. Rosner
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Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2165570017