Published 2013 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurements of branching fractions of leptonic and hadronic Ds+ meson decays and extraction of the Ds+ meson decay constant

Description

We present measurements of absolute branching fractions of hadronic and lep-tonic Ds+ decays to K - K + π +, K¯0 K +, ηπ +, μ + ν μ and τ + ν τ and report a search for the leptonic Ds+ → e + ν e decays. The results are obtained from a data sample of 913 fb-1 collected at or near the Υ(4S) and Υ(5S) resonances with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e + e - collider. The branching fractions of hadronic decays are measured to be B(Ds+  KK+π+)=(5.06±0.15±0.21)%, B(Ds+  K¯0K+)=(2.95±0.11±0.09)%, B(Ds+  ηπ+)=(1.82±0.14±0.07)%, where the first and second uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. The branching fractions of leptonic decays are measured to be B(Ds+  μ+νμ)=(0.531±0.028±0.020)%, B(Ds+τ+ντ)=(5.70±0.210.300.31)%, which are combined to determine the Ds+ meson decay constant fDs=(255.5±4.2±5.1) MeV. We find no significant signal for Ds+  e+νe decays and set an upper limit of B(Ds+  e+νe) < 1.0(0.83) × 10-4 at 95% (90%) confidence level.

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Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2013
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
1029-8479

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
SC0009973
Collaborations
The BELLE Collaboration
Funding organization
USDOE Office of Science - SC, High Energy Physics (HEP) (United States)
Secondary number(s)
OSTIID--1594506