Measurement of absolute branching fractions of inclusive semileptonic decays of charm and charmed-strange mesons

D. M. Asner et al. (CLEO Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. D 81, 052007 – Published 16 March 2010

Abstract

We have measured the inclusive semileptonic branching fractions of D0, D+, and Ds+ mesons. For these measurements, we have used the full CLEO-c open-charm data samples, 818pb1 at ECM=3.774GeV, giving D0D¯0 and D+D events, and 602pb1 at ECM=4.170GeV, giving Ds*±Ds events. We obtain B(D0Xe+νe)=(6.46±0.09±0.11)%, B(D+Xe+νe)=(16.13±0.10±0.29)%, and B(Ds+Xe+νe)=(6.52±0.39±0.15)%, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. From these and lifetimes obtained elsewhere, we obtain the ratios of semileptonic decay widths Γ(D+Xe+νe)/Γ(D0Xe+νe)=0.985±0.015±0.024 and Γ(Ds+Xe+νe)/Γ(D0Xe+νe)=0.828±0.051±0.025. The ratio of D+ and D0 is consistent with the isospin symmetry prediction of unity, and the ratio of Ds+ and D0 differs from unity, as expected.

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  • Received 21 December 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.052007

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Vol. 81, Iss. 5 — 1 March 2010

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