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Phys. Rev. D 77, 112005 (2008) [19 pages]

Study of the semileptonic charm decays D0-->pi-e+nue, D+-->pi0e+nue, D0-->K-e+nue, and D+-->[overline K]0e+nue

S. Dobbs,1 Z. Metreveli,1 K. K. Seth,1 A. Tomaradze,1 J. Ernst,2 H. Severini,3 S. A. Dytman,4 W. Love,4 V. Savinov,4 O. Aquines,5 Z. Li,5 A. Lopez,5 S. Mehrabyan,5 H. Mendez,5 J. Ramirez,5 G. S. Huang,6 D. H. Miller,6 V. Pavlunin,6 B. Sanghi,6 I. P. J. Shipsey,6 B. Xin,6 G. S. Adams,7 M. Anderson,7 J. P. Cummings,7 I. Danko,7 J. Napolitano,7 Q. He,8 J. Insler,8 H. Muramatsu,8 C. S. Park,8 E. H. Thorndike,8 F. Yang,8 T. E. Coan,9 Y. S. Gao,9 F. Liu,9 M. Artuso,10 S. Blusk,10 J. Butt,10 J. Li,10 N. Menaa,10 R. Mountain,10 S. Nisar,10 K. Randrianarivony,10 R. Redjimi,10 R. Sia,10 T. Skwarnicki,10 S. Stone,10 J. C. Wang,10 K. Zhang,10 S. E. Csorna,11 G. Bonvicini,12 D. Cinabro,12 M. Dubrovin,12 A. Lincoln,12 D. M. Asner,13 K. W. Edwards,13 R. A. Briere,14 I. Brock,14 J. Chen,14 T. Ferguson,14 G. Tatishvili,14 H. Vogel,14 M. E. Watkins,14 J. L. Rosner,15 N. E. Adam,16 J. P. Alexander,16 K. Berkelman,16 D. G. Cassel,16 J. E. Duboscq,16 K. M. Ecklund,16 R. Ehrlich,16 L. Fields,16 L. Gibbons,16 R. Gray,16 S. W. Gray,16 D. L. Hartill,16 B. K. Heltsley,16 D. Hertz,16 C. D. Jones,16 J. Kandaswamy,16 D. L. Kreinick,16 V. E. Kuznetsov,16 H. Mahlke-Krüger,16 P. U. E. Onyisi,16 J. R. Patterson,16 D. Peterson,16 J. Pivarski,16 D. Riley,16 A. Ryd,16 A. J. Sadoff,16 H. Schwarthoff,16 X. Shi,16 S. Stroiney,16 W. M. Sun,16 T. Wilksen,16 M. Weinberger,16 S. B. Athar,17 R. Patel,17 V. Potlia,17 J. Yelton,17 P. Rubin,18 C. Cawlfield,19 B. I. Eisenstein,19 I. Karliner,19 D. Kim,19 N. Lowrey,19 P. Naik,19 C. Sedlack,19 M. Selen,19 E. J. White,19 J. Wiss,19 M. R. Shepherd,20 D. Besson,21 T. K. Pedlar,22 D. Cronin-Hennessy,23 K. Y. Gao,23 D. T. Gong,23 J. Hietala,23 Y. Kubota,23 T. Klein,23 B. W. Lang,23 R. Poling,23 A. W. Scott,23 A. Smith,23 and P. Zweber23

(CLEO Collaboration)

1Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
2State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York 12222, USA
3University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA
4University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
5University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00681
6Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
7Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA
8University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
9Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
10Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
11Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
12Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA
13Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6
14Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
15Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
16Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
17University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
18George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA
19University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA
20Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
21University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
22Luther College, Decorah, Iowa 52101, USA
23University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA

Received 5 December 2007; published 20 June 2008

Using a sample of 1.8 million D[overline D] mesons collected at the psi(3770) with the CLEO-c detector, we study the semileptonic decays D0-->pi-e+nue, D+-->pi0e+nue, D0-->K-e+nue, and D+-->[overline K]0e+nue. For the total branching fractions we find [script B](D0-->pi-e+nue)=0.299(11)(9)%, [script B](D+-->pi0e+nue)=0.373(22)(13)%, [script B](D0-->K-e+nue)=3.56(3)(9)%, and [script B](D+-->[overline K]0e+nue)=8.53(13)(23)%, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. In addition, form factors are studied through fits to the partial branching fractions obtained in five q2 ranges. By combining our results with recent unquenched lattice calculations, we obtain |Vcd|=0.217(9)(4)(23) and |Vcs|=1.015(10)(11)(106), where the final error is theoretical.

©2008 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.112005
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.112005
PACS: 12.15.Hh; 13.20.Fc; 14.40.Lb
  • 12.15.Hh
    Determination of electroweak Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements
  • 13.20.Fc
    Leptonic/semileptonic/radiative decays of charmed mesons
  • 14.40.Lb
    Charmed mesons
  • YEAR: 2008

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