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Measurement of the branching ratios of D+ and D-s(+) hadronic decays to four-body final states containing a K-S - art. no. 162001

Authors

Link, JM Reyes, M Yager, PM Anjos, JC Bediaga, I Gobel, C Magnin, J Massafferi, A de Miranda, JM Pepe, IM dos Reis, AC Simao, FRA Carrillo, S Casimiro, E Sanchez-Hernandez, A Uribe, C Vazquez, F Cinquini, L Cumalat, JP O'Reilly, B Ramirez, JE Vaandering, EW Butler, JN Cheung, HWK Gaines, I Garbincius, PH Garren, LA Gottschalk, E Kasper, PH Kreymer, AE Kutschke, R Bianco, S Fabbri, FL Sarwar, S Zallo, A Cawlfield, C Kim, DY Rahimi, A Wiss, J Gardner, R Chung, YS Kang, JS Ko, BR Kwak, JW Lee, KB Park, H Alimonti, G Boschini, M Caccianiga, B D'Angelo, P DiCorato, M Dini, P Giammarchi, M Inzani, P Leveraro, F Malvezzi, S Menasce, D Mezzadri, M Milazzo, L Moroni, L Pedrini, D Pontoglio, C Prelz, F Rovere, M Sala, A Sala, S Davenport, TF Agostino, L Arena, V Boca, G Bonomi, G Gianini, G Liguori, G Merlo, M Pantea, D Ratti, SP Riccardi, C Segoni, I Viola, L Vitulo, P Hernandez, H Lopez, AM Mendez, H Mendez, I Mirles, A Montiel, E Olaya, D Paris, A Quinones, J Rivera, C Xiong, W Zhang, Y Wilson, JR Cho, K Handler, T Engh, D Hosack, M Johns, WE Nehring, M Sheldon, PD Stenson, K Webster, M Sheaff, M

Citation

Jm. Link et al., Measurement of the branching ratios of D+ and D-s(+) hadronic decays to four-body final states containing a K-S - art. no. 162001, PHYS REV L, 8716(16), 2001, pp. 2001

Citations number

Categorie Soggetti

Physics

Journal title

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

ISSN journal

00319007 → ACNP

Volume

8716

Issue

Year of publication

2001

Database

ISI

SICI code

0031-9007(20011015)8716:16<2001:MOTBRO>2.0.ZU;2-D

Abstract

We have studied hadronic four-body decays of D+ and D-s(+) mesons with a Ks in the final state using data recorded during the 1996-1997 fixed-target r un of the Fermilab high energy photoproduction experiment FOCUS. We report a new branching ratio measurement of Gamma (D+ --> K(S)K(-)pi (+)pi (+))Gam maF(D+ K(S)pi (+) pi (+) pi (-)) = 0.0768 +/- 0.0041 +/- 0.0032. We make th e first observation of three new decay modes with branching ratios Gamma (D + --> KSK+ pi (+) pi (-))/Gamma (D+ --> K(S)pi (+) pi (+) pi (-)) = 0.0562 +/- 0.0039 +/- 0.0040, Gamma (D+ --> KSK+K- pi (+))/Gamma (D+ --> K(S)pi () pi (+) pi (-)) 0.0077 +/- 0.0015 +/- 0.0009, and Gamma (D-s(+) --> KSK+ p i (+) pi (-))/Gamma (D-s(+) --> KSK- pi (+) pi (+)) 0.586 +/- 0.052 +/- 0.0 43, where in each case the first error is statistical and the second error is systematic.