Measurement of the Branching Ratio Gamma(D_s^* -> D_s pi0)/Gamma(D_s^* --> D_s gamma)

2004/08/18 by The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert, Aubert, B.
Physics and Astronomy · #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/0408094

14 pages, 3 postscript figues, submitted to ICHEP2000

arxiv created 2004/08/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

The (Delta I = 1) decay D_s^* --> Ds pi0 and (ΔI = 0) decay D_s^* --> Ds gamma have been reconstructed using 90.4 fb^-1 of data recorded by the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e⁺e^- collider. The relative branching fraction of isospin violating decay to isospin conserving decay has been measured. Our preliminary result for this ratio is Gamma(D_s^* -> D_s pi0)/Gamma(D_s^* --> D_s gamma) = 0.0621 +/- 0.0049 (stat) +/- 0.0063 (syst). In addition we reconstruct the decays D^* --> D0 pi0 and D^* --> D0 gamma for completeness and measure a preliminary relative branching fraction to be Gamma(D^* --> D0 pi0)/Gamma(D&* --> D0 gamma) = = 1.740 +/- 0.020 (stat) +/- 0.125 (syst). Both measurements represent significant improvements over present world averages.

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