A measurement of branching ratios of $D^+$ and $D^+_s$ hadronic decays to four-body final states containing a $K_S$

dc.creatorFOCUS collaboration
dc.creatorLink, J. M.
dc.date2001-05-15
dc.date2001-06-04
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dc.descriptionWe have studied hadronic four-body decays of $D^+$ and $D^+_s$ mesons with a $K_S$ in the final state using data recorded during the 1996-1997 fixed-target run at Fermilab high energy photoproduction experiment FOCUS. We report a new branching ratio measurement of $Γ(D^+\to K_S K^-π^+π^+)/Γ(D^+\to K_S π^+π^+π^-)=0.0768\pm0.0041\pm0.0032$. We make the first observation of three new decay modes with branching ratios $Γ(D^+\to K_S K^+π^+π^-)/Γ(D^+\to K_S π^+π^+π^-)=0.0562\pm0.0039\pm0.0040$, $Γ(D^+\to\K_S K^+ K^-π^+)/Γ(D^+\to K_S π^+π^+π^-)=0.0077\pm0.0015\pm0.0009$, and $Γ(D^+_s\to K_S K^+π^+π^-)/Γ(D^+_s\to K_S K^-π^+π^+)=0.586\pm0.052\pm0.043$, where in each case the first error is statistical and the second error is systematic.
dc.description4 pages, 1 table, 2 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0105031
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0105031
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.Lett.87:162001,2001
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.162001
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/207151
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Experiment
dc.titleA measurement of branching ratios of $D^+$ and $D^+_s$ hadronic decays to four-body final states containing a $K_S$
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