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High Energy Physics - Experiment

Title: Measurement of Charm Meson Lifetimes

Authors: G. Bonvicini, et al. (CLEO Collaboration)
Abstract: We report measurements of the $D^0, D^+$, and $D^+_s$ meson lifetimes using $3.7 fb^{-1}$ of e^+e^- annihilation data collected near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the CLEO detector. The lifetimes of the $D^0, D^+$, and $D^+_s$ mesons are measured to be $408.5 \pm 4.1 ^{+3.5}_{-3.4} fs, 1033.6 \pm 22.1 ^{+9.9}_{-12.7} fs$, and $486.3 \pm 15.0 ^{+4.9}_{-5.1} fs$, respectively. The precisions of the charm meson lifetimes reported here are comparable to those of the best previous measurements, and the systematic errors are very different. In a single experiment we find that the ratio of the $D^+_s$ and $D^0$ lifetimes differs from one by more than 4.5 standard deviations.
Comments: 10 pages, postscript file also available through this http URL
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
Journal reference: Phys.Rev.Lett. 82 (1999) 4586-4590
Report number: CLNS 99/1603, CLEO 99-2
Cite as: arXiv:hep-ex/9902011v3

Submission history

From: Preprints Libr/pam [view email]
[v1] Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:44:40 GMT (93kb)
[v2] Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:09:39 GMT (93kb)
[v3] Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:13:17 GMT (94kb)