Measurement of the Ds lifetime

Autor: E.M. Aitala, S. Amato, J.C. Anjos, J.A. Appel, D. Ashery, S. Banerjee, I. Bediaga, G. Blaylock, S.B. Bracker, P.R. Burchat, R.A. Burnstein, T. Carter, H.S. Carvalho, N.K. Copty, L.M. Cremaldi, C. Darling, K. Denisenko, A. Fernandez, G.F. Fox, P. Gagnon, C. Gobel, K. Gounder, A.M. Halling, G. Herrera, G. Hurvits, C. James, P.A. Kasper, S. Kwan, D.C. Langs, J. Leslie, B. Lundberg, S. MayTal-Beck, B. Meadows, J.R.T. de Mello Neto, D. Mihalcea, R.H. Milburn, J.M. de Miranda, A. Napier, A. Nguyen, A.B. d'Oliveira, K. O'Shaughnessy, K.C. Peng, L.P. Perera, M.V. Purohit, B. Quinn, S. Radeztsky, A. Rafatian, N.W. Reay, J.J. Reidy, A.C. dos Reis, H.A. Rubin, D.A. Sanders, A.K.S. Santha, A.F.S. Santoro, A.J. Schwartz, M. Sheaff, R.A. Sidwell, A.J. Slaughter, M.D. Sokoloff, J. Solano, N.R. Stanton, R.J. Stefanski, K. Stenson, D.J. Summers, S. Takach, K. Thorne, A.K. Tripathi, S. Watanabe, R. Weiss-Babai, J. Wiener, N. Witchey, E. Wolin, S.M. Yang, D. Yi, S. Yoshida, R. Zaliznyak, C. Zhang
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Physics Letters B. 445:449-454
ISSN: 0370-2693
DOI: 10.1016/s0370-2693(98)01476-2
Popis: We report the results of a precise measurement of the Ds meson lifetime based on 1662 +/- 56 fully reconstructed Ds -> phi pi decays, from the charm hadroproduction experiment E791 at Fermilab. Using an unbinned maximum likelihood fit, we measure the Ds lifetime to be 0.518 +/- 0.014 +/- 0.007 ps. The ratio of the measured Ds lifetime to the world average D0 lifetime is 1.25 +/- 0.04. This result differs from unity by six standard deviations, indicating significantly different lifetimes for the Ds and the D0.
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Databáze: OpenAIRE
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