Search for rare and forbidden charm meson decays D-0 -> Vl(+)l(-) and hhll

Authors
Aitala, EM Amato, S Anjos, JC Appel, JA Ashery, D Banerjee, S Bediaga, I Blaylock, G Bracker, SB Burchat, PR Burnstein, RA Carter, T Carvalho, HS Copty, NK Cremaldi, LM Darling, C Denisenko, K Devmal, S Fernandez, A Fox, GF Gagnon, P Gobel, C Gounder, K Halling, AM Herrera, G Hurvits, C James, C Kasper, PA Kwan, S Langs, DC Leslie, J Lundberg, B Magnin, J MayTal-Beck, S Meadows, B Neto, JRTD Mihalcea, D Milburn, RH de Miranda, JM Napier, A Nguyen, A d'Oliveira, AB O'Shaughnessy, K Peng, KC Perera, LP Purohit, MV Quinn, B Radeztsky, S Rafatian, A Reay, NW Reidy, JJ dos Reis, AC Rubin, HA Sanders, DA Santha, AKS Santoro, AFS Schwartz, AJ Sheaff, M Sidwell, RA Slaughter, AJ Sokoloff, MD Solano, J Stanton, NR Stefanski, RJ Stenson, K Summers, DJ Takach, S Thorne, K Tripathi, AK Watanabe, S Weiss-Babai, R Wiener, J Witchey, N Wolin, E Yang, SM Yi, D Yoshida, S Zaliznyak, R Zhang, C
Citation
Em. Aitala et al., Search for rare and forbidden charm meson decays D-0 -> Vl(+)l(-) and hhll, PHYS REV L, 86(18), 2001, pp. 3969-3972
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
86
Issue
18
Year of publication
2001
Pages
3969 - 3972
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(20010430)86:18<3969:SFRAFC>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
We report results of a search for flavor-changing neutral current (FCNC), l epton flavor, and lepton number violating decays of the D-0 (and its antipa rticle) into three and four bodies. Using data from Fermilab charm hadropro duction experiment E791, we examine modes with two leptons (muons or electr ons) and a rho (0), (K) over bar (*0) or phi vector meson or a nonresonant pi pi, K pi, or KK pair of pseudoscalar mesons. No evidence for any of thes e decays is found. Therefore, we present branching-fraction upper limits at 90% confidence level for the 27 decay modes examined(18 new).