Measurements of branching fractions of leptonic and hadronic D s+ meson decays and extraction of the Ds + meson decay constant

A. Zupanc, I. Adachi, H. Aihara, K. Arinstein, D. M. Asner, T. Aushev, A. M. Bakich, A. Bala, B. Bhuyan, G. Bonvicini, A. Bozek, M. Bračko, J. Brodzicka, T. E. Browder, M. C. Chang, P. Chang, V. Chekelian, A. Chen, P. Chen, B. G. CheonK. Chilikin, R. Chistov, K. Cho, V. Chobanova, S. K. Choi, Y. Choi, D. Cinabro, J. Dalseno, M. Danilov, Z. Doležal, Z. Drásal, D. Dutta, S. Eidelman, H. Farhat, J. E. Fast, T. Ferber, V. Gaur, N. Gabyshev, S. Ganguly, R. Gillard, Y. M. Goh, B. Golob, J. Haba, T. Hara, K. Hayasaka, H. Hayashii, Y. Horii, Y. Hoshi, W. S. Hou, Y. B. Hsiung, H. J. Hyun, T. Iijima, K. Inami, A. Ishikawa, R. Itoh, Y. Iwasaki, T. Iwashita, I. Jaegle, T. Julius, E. Kato, H. Kawai, T. Kawasaki, H. Kichimi, C. Kiesling, D. Y. Kim, H. O. Kim, J. B. Kim, J. H. Kim, M. J. Kim, Y. J. Kim, K. Kinoshita, J. Klucar, B. R. Ko, P. Kodyš, S. Korpar, P. Križan, P. Krokovny, B. Kronenbitter, T. Kuhr, T. Kumita, A. Kuzmin, Y. J. Kwon, J. S. Lange, S. H. Lee, J. Li, J. Libby, Z. Q. Liu, D. Liventsev, P. Lukin, H. Miyata, R. Mizuk, G. B. Mohanty, A. Moll, R. Mussa, E. Nakano, M. Nakao, E. Nedelkovska, N. K. Nisar, S. Nishida, O. Nitoh, S. Ogawa, S. Okuno, G. Pakhlova, C. W. Park, H. Park, H. K. Park, T. K. Pedlar, R. Pestotnik, M. Petrič, L. E. Piilonen, M. Prim, M. Ritter, M. Röhrken, A. Rostomyan, S. Ryu, H. Sahoo, T. Saito, Y. Sakai, S. Sandilya, L. Santelj, T. Sanuki, Y. Sato, V. Savinov, O. Schneider, G. Schnell, C. Schwanda, A. J. Schwartz, D. Semmler, K. Senyo, M. E. Sevior, M. Shapkin, C. P. Shen, T. A. Shibata, J. G. Shiu, B. Shwartz, A. Sibidanov, F. Simon, Y. S. Sohn, A. Sokolov, E. Solovieva, M. Starič, M. Steder, T. Sumiyoshi, U. Tamponi, K. Tanida, G. Tatishvili, Y. Teramoto, K. Trabelsi, T. Tsuboyama, M. Uchida, T. Uglov, S. Uno, Y. Usov, S. E. Vahsen, C. Van Hulse, P. Vanhoefer, G. Varner, A. Vinokurova, V. Vorobyev, M. N. Wagner, C. H. Wang, M. Z. Wang, P. Wang, X. L. Wang, M. Watanabe, Y. Watanabe, E. Won, Y. Yamashita, S. Yashchenko, Z. P. Zhang, V. Zhilich, V. Zhulanov

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Abstract

We present measurements of absolute branching fractions of hadronic and leptonic Ds+ decays to K -K+π+, K̄0K+, ηπ+, μ+νμ and τ+ντ and report a search for the leptonic Ds+ → e +νe decays. The results are obtained from a data sample of 913 fb-1 collected at or near the Y(4S ) and Y(5S ) resonances with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. The branching fractions of hadronic decays are measured to be B(Ds+ → K-K+π+) = (5.06 ± 0.15 ± 0.21)%; B(Ds+ → K̄0K+) = (2.95 ± 0.11 ± 0.09)%; B(Ds+ → ηπ+) = (1.82 ± 0.14 ± 0.07)%; where the first and second uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. The branching fractions of leptonic decays are measured to be B(Ds+ → μ+ν μ) = (0.531 ± 0.028 ± 0.020)%; B(Ds + → τ+ντ) = (5.70 ± 0.21-0.30+0.31)%, which are combined to determine the Ds+ meson decay constant fDs = (255.5 ± 4.2 ± 5.1) MeV: We find no significant signal for Ds + → e+νe decays and set an upper limit of B(Ds+ → e+νe) < 1.0(0.83) × 10-4 at 95% (90%) confidence level.

Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2013
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013 Sept

Keywords

  • Branching fraction
  • Charm physics
  • Flavor physics
  • Rare decay

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