Search for flavor-changing neutral currents and lepton-family-number violation in two-body D-0 decays - art. no. 032005

Authors
Pripstein, D Gidal, G Ho, PM Kowitt, MS Luk, KB Isenhower, LD Sadler, ME Schnathorst, R Lederman, LM Schub, MH Brown, CN Cooper, WE Gounder, KN Mishra, CS Carey, TA Jansen, DM Jeppesen, RG Kapustinsky, JS Lane, DW Leitch, MJ Lillberg, JW McGaughey, PL Moss, JM Peng, JC Kaplan, DM Luebke, WR Preston, RS Sa, J Tanikella, V Childers, RL Darden, CW Wilson, JR Kiang, GC Teng, PK Chen, YC
Citation
D. Pripstein et al., Search for flavor-changing neutral currents and lepton-family-number violation in two-body D-0 decays - art. no. 032005, PHYS REV D, 6103(3), 2000, pp. 2005
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
ISSN journal
05562821 → ACNP
Volume
6103
Issue
3
Year of publication
2000
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(20000201)6103:3<2005:SFFNCA>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
We present the results of a search for the three neutral charm decays D-0-- >mu(+/-)e(-/+), D-0 --> mu(+)mu(-), and D-0 --> e(+)e(-). This study was ba sed on data collected in Experiment 789 at the Fermi National Accelerator L aboratory using 800 GeV/c proton-Au and proton-Be interactions. No evidence is found for any of the decays. Upper limits on the branching ratios, at t he 90% confidence level, of 1.56 x 10(-5) for D-0-->mu(+)mu(-), 8.19 x 10(- 6) for D-0-->e(+)e(-) and 1.72 x 10(-5) for D-0-->mu(+/-)e(-/+) are obtaine d.