Measurement of charm meson lifetimes

Authors
Bonvicini, G Cinabro, D Greene, R Perera, LP Zhou, GJ Chan, S Eigen, G Lipeles, E Schmidtler, M Shapiro, A Sun, WM Urheim, J Weinstein, AJ Wurthwein, F Jaffe, DE Masek, G Paar, HP Potter, EM Prell, S Sharma, V Asner, DM Eppich, A Gronberg, J Hill, TS Korte, CM Lange, DJ Morrison, RJ Nelson, HN Nelson, TK Roberts, D Tajima, H Behrens, BH Ford, WT Gritsan, A Krieg, H Roy, J Smith, JG Alexander, JP Baker, R Bebek, C Berger, BE Berkelman, K Boisvert, V Cassel, DG Crowcroft, DS Dickson, M von Dombrowski, S Drell, PS Dumas, DJ Ecklund, KM Ehrlich, R Foland, AD Gaidarev, P Gibbons, L Gittelman, B Gray, SW Hartill, DL Heltsley, BK Henderson, S Hopman, PI Katayama, N Kreinick, DL Lee, T Liu, Y Meyer, TO Mistry, NB Ng, CR Nordberg, E Ogg, M Patterson, JR Peterson, D Riley, D Soffer, A Thayer, JG Thies, PG Valant-Spaight, B Warburton, A Ward, C Athanas, M Avery, P Jones, CD Lohner, H Prescott, C Rubiera, AI Yelton, J Zheng, J Brandenburg, G Briere, RA Ershov, A Gao, YS Kim, DYJ Wilson, R Browder, TE Li, Y Rodriguez, JL Yamamoto, H Bergfeld, T Eisenstein, BI Ernst, J Gladding, GE Gollin, GD Hans, RM Johnson, E Karliner, I Marsh, WA Palmer, M Plager, C Sedlack, C Selen, M Thaler, JJ Williams, J Edwards, KW Bellerive, A Janicek, R Patel, PM Sadoff, AJ Ammar, R Baringer, P Bean, A Besson, D Coppage, D Davis, R Kotov, S Kravchenko, I Kwak, N Zhou, L Anderson, S Kubota, Y Lee, SJ Mahapatra, R O'Neill, JJ Poling, R Riehle, T Smith, A Alam, MS Athar, SB Ling, Z Mahmood, AH Timm, S Wappler, F Anastassov, A Duboscq, JE Gan, KK Gwon, C Hart, T Honscheid, K Kagan, H Kass, R Lee, J Lorenc, J Schwarthoff, H Wolf, A Zoeller, RM Richichi, SJ Severini, H Skubic, P Undrus, A Bishai, M Chen, S Fast, J Hinson, JW Menon, N Miller, DH Shibata, EI Shipsey, IPJ Glenn, S Kwon, Y Lyon, AL Thorndike, EH Jessop, CP Lingel, K Marsiske, H Perl, ML Savinov, V Ugolini, D Zhou, X Coan, TE Fadeyev, V Korolkov, I Maravin, Y Narsky, I Stroynowski, R Ye, J Wlodek, T Artuso, M Ayad, S Dambasuren, E Kopp, S Majumder, G Moneti, GC Mountain, R Schuh, S Skwarnicki, T Stone, S Titov, A Viehhauser, G Wano, JC Csorna, SE McLean, KW Marka, S Xu, Z Godang, R Kinoshita, K Lai, IC Pomianowski, P Schrenk, S
Citation
G. Bonvicini et al., Measurement of charm meson lifetimes, PHYS REV L, 82(23), 1999, pp. 4586-4590
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
82
Issue
23
Year of publication
1999
Pages
4586 - 4590
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(19990607)82:23<4586:MOCML>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
We report measurements of the D-0, D-,(+) and D-s(+) meson lifetimes using 3.7 fb(-1) of e(+)e(-) annihilation data collected near the Y(4S) resonance with the CLEO detector. The measured lifetimes of the D-0, D+, and D-s(+) mesons are 408.5 +/- 4.1(-3.4)(+3.5) fs, 1033.6 +/- 22.1(-12.7)(+9.9) fs, a nd 486.3 +/- 15.0(-5.1)(+4.9) fs. The precisions of these lifetimes are com parable to those of the best previous measurements, and the systematic erro rs are very different. In a single experiment we find that the ratio of the D-s(+) and D-0 lifetimes is 1.19 +/- 0.04. [S0031-9007(99)09313-8].