Measurement of the branching ratio for D-s(-)->tau(-)(nu)over-bar(tau) decays

Authors
Abbiendi, G Ainsley, C Akesson, PF Alexander, G Allison, J Anagnostou, G Anderson, KJ Arcelli, S Asai, S Axen, D Azuelos, G Bailey, I Ball, AH Barberio, E Barlow, RJ Batley, RJ Behnke, T Bell, KW Bella, G Bellerive, A Benelli, G Bethke, S Biebel, O Bloodworth, IJ Boeriu, O Bock, P Bohme, J Bonacorsi, D Boutemeur, M Braibant, S Brigliadori, L Brown, RM Burckhart, HJ Cammin, J Capiluppi, P Carnegie, RK Caron, B Carter, AA Carter, JR Chang, CY Charlton, DG Clarke, PEL Clay, E Cohen, I Couchman, J Csilling, A Cuffiani, M Dado, S Dallavalle, GM Dallison, S De Roeck, A De Wolf, EA Dervan, P Desch, K Dienes, B Dixit, MS Donkers, M Dubbert, J Duchovni, E Duckeck, G Duerdoth, IP Estabrooks, PG Etzion, E Fabbri, F Fanti, M Feld, L Ferrari, P Fiedler, F Fleck, I Ford, M Frey, A Furtjes, A Futyan, DI Gagnon, P Gary, JW Gaycken, G Geich-Gimbel, C Giacomelli, G Giacomelli, P Glenzinski, D Goldberg, J Grandi, C Graham, K Gross, E Grunhaus, J Gruwe, M Gunther, PO Gupta, A Hajdu, C Hanson, GG Harder, K Harel, A Harin-Dirac, M Hauschild, M Hawkes, CM Hawkings, R Hemingway, RJ Hensel, C Herten, G Heuer, RD Hill, JC Hoffman, K Homer, RJ Honma, AK Horvath, D Hossain, KR Howard, R Huntemeyer, P Igo-Kemenes, P Ishii, K Jawahery, A Jeremie, H Jones, CR Jovanovic, P Junk, TR Kanaya, N Kanzaki, J Karapetian, G Karlen, D Kartvelishvili, V Kawagoe, K Kawamoto, T Keeler, RK Kellogg, RG Kennedy, BW Kim, DH Klein, K Klier, A Kluth, S Kobayashi, T Kobel, M Kokott, TP Komamiya, S Kowalewski, RV Kamer, T Kress, T Krieger, P von Krogh, J Krop, D Kuhl, T Kupper, M Kyberd, P Lafferty, GD Landsman, H Lanske, D Lawson, I Layter, JG Leins, A Lellouch, D Letts, J Levinson, L Liebisch, R Lillich, J Littlewood, C Lloyd, AW Lloyd, SL Loebinger, FK Long, GD Losty, MJ Lu, J Ludwig, J Macchiolo, A Macpherson, A Mader, W Marcellini, S Marchant, TE Martin, AJ Martin, JP Martinez, G Mashimo, T Mattig, P McDonald, WJ McKenna, J McMahon, TJ McPherson, RA Meijers, F Mendez-Lorenzo, P Menges, W Merritt, FS Mes, H Michelini, A Mihara, S Mikenberg, G Miller, DJ Mohr, W Montanari, A Mori, T Nagai, K Nakamura, G Neal, HA Nisius, R O'Neale, SW Oakham, FG Odorici, F Oh, A Okpara, A Oreglia, MJ Orito, S Pahl, C Pasztor, G Pater, JR Patrick, GN Pilcher, JE Pinfold, J Plane, DE Poli, B Polok, J Pooth, O Quadt, A Rabbertz, K Rembser, C Renkel, P Rick, H Rodning, N Roney, JM Rosati, S Roscoe, K Rossi, AM Rozen, Y Runge, K Runolfsson, O Rust, DR Sachs, K Saeki, T Sahr, O Sarkisyan, EKG Sbarra, C Schaile, AD Schaile, O Scharff-Hansen, P Schmitt, C Schroder, M Schumacher, M Schwick, C Scott, WG Seuster, R Shears, TG Shen, BC Shepherd-Themistocleous, CH Sherwood, P Siroli, GP Skuja, A Smith, AM Snow, GA Sobie, R Soldner-Rembold, S Spagnolo, S Spano, F Sproston, M Stahl, A Stephens, K Strom, D Strohmer, R Stumpf, L Surrow, B Talbot, SD Tarem, S Tasevsky, M Taylor, RJ Teuscher, R Thomas, J Thomson, MA Torrence, E Towers, S Toya, D Trefzger, T Trigger, I Trocsanyi, Z Tsur, E Turner-Watson, MF Ueda, I Vachon, B Vollmer, CF Vannerem, P Verzocchi, M Voss, H Vossebeld, J Waller, D Ward, CP Ward, DR Watkins, PM Watson, AT Watson, NK Wells, PS Wengler, T Wermes, N Wetterling, D White, JS Wilson, GW Wilson, JA Wyatt, TR Yamashita, S Zacek, V Zer-Zion, D
Citation
G. Abbiendi et al., Measurement of the branching ratio for D-s(-)->tau(-)(nu)over-bar(tau) decays, PHYS LETT B, 516(3-4), 2001, pp. 236-248
Citations number
41
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICS LETTERS B
ISSN journal
03702693 → ACNP
Volume
516
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
2001
Pages
236 - 248
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(20010920)516:3-4<236:MOTBRF>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Using about 3.9 million hadronic Z decays from e(+)e(-) collisions recorded by the OPAL detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies,roots approximate t o M-Z, the branching ratio for the decay D-s(-)--> tau (-)(v) over bar (tau ) has been measured to be BR(D-s(-) --> tau (-)(v)over bar>) = (7.0 +/- 2.1 (stat) +/- 2.0(syst))%. This result can be used to derive the decay constan t of the D-s(-) meson: f(Ds) = (286 +/- 44(stat) +/- 41 (syst)) MeV. (C) 20 01 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.