MEASUREMENT OF THE ABSOLUTE BRANCHING FRACTION FOR D(0)-]K-PI+

Authors
AKERIB DS BARISH B CHADHA M CHAN S COWEN DF EIGEN G MILLER JS OGRADY C URHEIM J WEINSTEIN AJ ACOSTA D ATHANAS M MASEK G PAAR H BEAN A GRONBERG J KUTSCHKE R MENARY S MORRISON RJ NAKANISHI S NELSON HN NELSON TK RICHMAN JD RYD A TAJIMA H SCHMIDT D SPERKA D WITHERELL MS PROCARIO M YANG S BALEST R CHO K DAOUDI M FORD WT JOHNSON DR LINGEL K LOHNER M RANKIN P SMITH JG ALEXANDER JP BEBEK C BERKELMAN K BESSON D BROWDER TE CASSEL DG CHO HA COFFMAN DM DRELL PS EHRLICH R GARCIASCIVERES M GEISER B GITTELMAN B GRAY SW HARTILL DL HELTSLEY BK JONES CD JONES SL KANDASWAMY J KATAYAMA N KIM PC KREINICK DL LUDWIG GS MASUI J MEVISSEN J MISTRY NB NG CR NORDBERG E OGG M PATTERSON JR PETERSON D RILEY D SALMAN S SAPPER M WORDEN H WURTHWEIN F AVERY P FREYBERGER A RODRIGUEZ J STEPHENS R YELTON J CINABRO D HENDERSON S KINOSHITA K LIU T SAULNIER M SHEN F WILSON R YAMAMOTO H ONG B SELEN M SADOFF AJ AMMAR R BALL S BARINGER P COPPAGE D COPTY N DAVIS R HANCOCK N KELLY M KWAK N LAM H KUBOTA Y LATTERY M NELSON JK PATTON S PERTICONE D POLING R SAVINOV V SCHRENK S WANG R ALAM MS KIM IJ NEMATI B ONEILL JJ SEVERINI H SUN CR ZOELLER MM CRAWFORD G DAUBENMIER CM FULTON R FUJINO D GAN KK HONSCHEID K KAGAN H KASS R LEE J MALCHOW R MORROW F SKOVPEN Y SUNG M WHITE C WHITMORE J WILSON P BUTLER F FU X KALBFLEISCH G LAMBRECHT M ROSS WR SKUBIC P SNOW J WANG PL WOOD M BORTOLETTO D BROWN DN FAST J MCILWAIN RL MIAO T MILLER DH MODESITT M SCHAFFNER SF SHIBATA EI SHIPSEY IPJ WANG PN BATTLE M ERNST J KROHA H ROBERTS S SPARKS K THORNDIKE EH WANG CH DOMINICK J SANGHERA S SHELKOV V SKWARNICKI T STROYNOWSKI R VOLOBOUEV I ZADOROZHNY P ARTUSO M HE D GOLDBERG M HORWITZ N KENNETT R MONETI GC MUHEIM F MUKHIN Y PLAYFER S ROZEN Y STONE S THULASIDAS M VASSEUR G ZHU G BARTELT J CSORNA SE EGYED Z JAIN V
Citation
Ds. Akerib et al., MEASUREMENT OF THE ABSOLUTE BRANCHING FRACTION FOR D(0)-]K-PI+, Physical review letters, 71(19), 1993, pp. 3070-3074
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
71
Issue
19
Year of publication
1993
Pages
3070 - 3074
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1993)71:19<3070:MOTABF>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Using 1.79 fb-1 of data recorded by the CLEO II detector we have measu red the absolute branching fraction for D0 --> K-pi+. The angular corr elation between the pi+ emitted in the decay D+ --> D0pi+, and the je t direction in e+e- --> ccBAR events, is used to determine the total n umber of inclusive D0 mesons produced from this source. The subsequent reconstruction of the decay chain D+ --> D0pi+, D0 --> K-pi+ allows a measurement of the absolute D0 --> K-pi+ branching fraction. Correct ing for decay radiation in the final state, we find B(D0 --> K-pi+) = [3.95 +/- 0.08(stat)+/-0.17(syst)]%.