Observation of the Muonic Decay, Ds± → µ±νµ
Author(s) -
S. Aoki,
G. Baroni,
V. Bisi,
A. C. Breslin,
M.G. Catanesi,
K. Chiba,
D.H. Davis,
S. Di Liberto,
M.J. Esten,
C. Gerke,
K. Hoshino,
M. Kazuno,
M. Kobayashi,
K. Kodama,
Y. Maeda,
A. MarzariChiesa,
M. A. Mazzoni,
F. Meddi,
F. Minakawa,
M. Miyanishi,
M T Muciaccia,
Mitsuhiro Nakamura,
K. Nakazawa,
K. Niu,
K. Niwa,
G. Poulard,
E. Radicioni,
L. Ramello,
G. Romano,
G. La Rosa,
F. Ruggieri,
Massimo Sartori,
H. Sasaki,
Yoko Sato,
C. Sgarbi,
H. Shibuya,
S. Simone,
H. Tajima,
S. Tasaka,
I. Tezuka,
D.N. Tovee,
N. Ushida,
Y. Yanagisawa
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
progress of theoretical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1347-4081
pISSN - 0033-068X
DOI - 10.1143/ptp.89.131
Subject(s) - physics , nuclear physics , atomic physics
The muonic decay of charmed strange mesons has been observed directly, in the analysis of a sample of 144 decays of charged charmed particles into a muon and no other charged particle. The branching ratio is estimated to be BR(Ds± →µ±νµ) = (4.0+1.8+0.8-1.4-0.6 ±1.7) ×10-3, assuming a ratio r = 0.27 between production cross sections of Ds± and neutral charmed particles. The decay constant fDs is estimated to be (232 ±45 ±20 ±48) MeV/c2 and does not depend on theoretical assumptions
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