Published October 1, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Searches for rare or forbidden semileptonic charm decays

  • 1. Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Universite de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux (France)
  • 2. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
  • 3. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 4. INFN Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 5. University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)
  • 6. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
  • 7. Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Institut fuer Experimentalphysik 1, D-44780 Bochum (Germany)
  • 8. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1 (Canada)

Description

We present searches for rare or forbidden charm decays of the form Xc+→h±l±l(')+, where Xc+ is a charm hadron (D+, Ds+, or Λc+), h± is a pion, kaon, or proton, and l(')± is an electron or muon. The analysis is based on 384 fb-1 of e+e- annihilation data collected at or close to the Υ(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. No significant signal is observed for any of the 35 decay modes that are investigated. We establish 90% confidence-level upper limits on the branching fractions between 1x10-6 and 44x10-6 depending on the channel. In most cases, these results represent either the first limits or significant improvements on existing limits for the decay modes studied.

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
84
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 072006-072006.13
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

Optional Information

Notes
(c) 2011 American Institute of Physics
Collaborations
BABAR Collaboration