OBSERVATION OF THE RADIATIVE DECAY D-ASTERISK-]D+GAMMA()

Authors
BARTELT J CSORNA SE JAIN V MCLEAN KW MARKA S GODANG R KINOSHITA K LAI IC POMIANOWSKI P SCHRENK S BONVICINI G CINABRO D GREENE R PERERA LP ZHOU GJ BARISH B CHADHA M CHAN S EIGEN G MILLER JS OGRADY C SCHMIDTLER M URHEIM J WEINSTEIN AJ WURTHWEIN F BLISS DW MASEK G PAAR HP PRELL S SHARMA V ASNER DM GRONBERG J HILL TS LANGE DJ MORRISON RJ NELSON HN NELSON TK RICHMAN JD ROBERTS D RYD A WITHERELL MS BALEST R BEHRENS BH FORD WT GRITSAN A PARK H ROY J SMITH JG ALEXANDER JP BEBEK C BERGER BE BERKELMAN K BLOOM K BOISVERT V CASSEL DG CHO HA CROWCROFT DS DICKSON M VONDOMBROWSKI S DRELL PS ECKLUND KM EHRLICH R FOLAND AD GAIDAREV P GIBBONS L GITTELMAN B GRAY SW HARTILL DL HELTSLEY BK HOPMAN PI KANDASWAMY J KIM PC KREINICK DL LEE T LIU Y MISTRY NB NG CR NORDBERG E OGG M PATTERSON JR PETERSON D RILEY D SOFFER A VALANTSPAIGHT B WARD C ATHANAS M AVERY P JONES CD LOHNER M PRESCOTT C YELTON J ZHENG J BRANDENBURG G BRIERE RA ERSHOV A GAO YS KIM DYJ WILSON R YAMAMOTO H BROWDER TE LI Y RODRIGUEZ JL BERGFELD T EISENSTEIN BI ERNST J GLADDING GE GOLLIN GD HANS RM JOHNSON E KARLINER I MARSH MA PALMER M SELEN M THALER JJ EDWARDS KW BELLERIVE A JANICEK R MACFARLANE DB PATEL PM SADOFF AJ AMMAR R BARINGER P BEAN A BESSON D COPPAGE D DARLING C DAVIS R KOTOV S KRAVCHENKO I KWAK N ZHOU L ANDERSON S KUBOTA Y LEE SJ ONEILL JJ PATTON S POLING R RIEHLE T SMITH A ALAM MS ATHAR SB LING Z MAHMOOD AH SEVERINI H TIMM S WAPPLER F ANASTASSOV A DUBOSCQ JE FUJINO D GAN KK HART T HONSCHEID K KAGAN H KASS R LEE J SPENCER MB SUNG M UNDRUS A WANKE R WOLF A ZOELLER MM NEMATI B RICHICHI SJ ROSS WR SKUBIC P BISHAI M FAST J HINSON JW MENON N MILLER DH SHIBATA EI SHIPSEY IPJ YURKO M GLENN S JOHNSON SD KWON Y ROBERTS S THORNDIKE EH JESSOP CP LINGEL K MARSISKE H PERL ML SAVINOV V UGOLINI D WANG R ZHOU X COAN TE FADEYEV V KOROLKOV I MARAVIN Y NARSKY I SHELKOV V STAECK J STROYNOWSKI R VOLOBOUEV I YE J ARTUSO M AZFAR F EFIMOV A GOLDBERG M HE D KOPP S MONETI GC MOUNTAIN R SCHUH S SKWARNICKI T STONE S VIEHHAUSER G XING X
Citation
J. Bartelt et al., OBSERVATION OF THE RADIATIVE DECAY D-ASTERISK-]D+GAMMA(), Physical review letters, 80(18), 1998, pp. 3919-3923
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
80
Issue
18
Year of publication
1998
Pages
3919 - 3923
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1998)80:18<3919:OOTRDD>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
We have observed a signal for the decay D(+) --> D(+)gamma at a signi ficance of 4 standard deviations. From the measured branching ratio B( D(+) --> D(+)gamma)/B(D*(+) --> D(+)pi(0)) = 0.055 +/- 0.014 +/- 0.01 0 we find B(D(+) --> D(+)gamma) = 0.017 +/- 0.004 +/- 0.003, where th e first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. We al so report the highest precision determination of the remaining D(+) b ranching fractions.