Semileptonic Decays of Charged D Meson Going to Eta-lepton-neutrino with Generic Reconstruction of Fully Hadronic Charged D Meson and Neutral D Meson Decays
Author | : Richard Carl Gray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2008 |
ISBN-10 | : 1109020481 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781109020489 |
Rating | : 4/5 (489 Downloads) |
Download or read book Semileptonic Decays of Charged D Meson Going to Eta-lepton-neutrino with Generic Reconstruction of Fully Hadronic Charged D Meson and Neutral D Meson Decays written by Richard Carl Gray and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study the semileptonic decays D + & rarr; eta'e+nu and D+ & rarr; etae+nu using 818 pb-1 of e+ e- collisions recorded by the CLEO-c detector located at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring. We employ a technique that uses the detector hermeticity to reconstruct the neutrino as missing energy and momentum. We improve the neutrino resolution by developing a generic algorithm to reconstruct the non-signal D, and constrain systematic uncertainties in the efficiency by using the algorithm to measure the branching fractions of D+ and D0 hadronic decays. We observe and measure the branching fractions of 67 hadronic decays, 32 of which are not listed in the PDG 2008. We find B (D+ & rarr; eta'e +nu) = (2.16 +/- 0.53 +/- 0.05 +/- 0.05) x 10-4 and B (D+ & rarr; etae +nu) = (11.7 +/- 0.98 +/- 0.34 +/- 0.26) x 10-4. Among the 67 D hadronic branching fractions observed in this analysis, we discover the decay B (D+ & rarr; pi+etaeta) = (0.34 +/- 0.06 +/- 0.032)% which is unexpectedly large considering the limited phase space available to the decay.