1307.6240 (A. Zupanc et al.)

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

A. Zupanc, I. Adachi, H. Aihara, K. Arinstein, D. M. Asner, T. Aushev, A. M. Bakich, A. Bala, B. Bhuyan, G. Bonvicini, A. Bozek, M. Bračko, J. Brodzicka, T. E. Browder, M. -C. Chang, P. Chang, V. Chekelian, A. Chen, P. Chen, B. G. Cheon, K. Chilikin, R. Chistov, K. Cho, V. Chobanova, S. -K. Choi, Y. Choi, D. Cinabro, J. Dalseno, M. Danilov, Z. Doležal, Z. Drásal, D. Dutta, S. Eidelman, H. Farhat, J. E. Fast, T. Ferber, V. Gaur, N. Gabyshev, S. Ganguly, R. Gillard, Y. M. Goh, B. Golob, J. Haba, T. Hara, K. Hayasaka, H. Hayashii, Y. Horii, Y. Hoshi, W. -S. Hou, Y. B. Hsiung, H. J. Hyun, T. Iijima, K. Inami, A. Ishikawa, R. Itoh, Y. Iwasaki, T. Iwashita, I. Jaegle, T. Julius, E. Kato, H. Kawai, T. Kawasaki, H. Kichimi, C. Kiesling, D. Y. Kim, H. O. Kim, J. B. Kim, J. H. Kim, M. J. Kim, Y. J. Kim, K. Kinoshita, J. Klucar, B. R. Ko, P. Kodyš, S. Korpar, P. Križan, P. Krokovny, B. Kronenbitter, T. Kuhr, T. Kumita, A. Kuzmin, Y. -J. Kwon, J. S. Lange, S. -H. Lee, J. Li, J. Libby, Z. Q. Liu, D. Liventsev, P. Lukin, H. Miyata, R. Mizuk, G. B. Mohanty, A. Moll, R. Mussa, E. Nakano, M. Nakao, E. Nedelkovska, N. K. Nisar, S. Nishida, O. Nitoh, S. Ogawa, S. Okuno, G. Pakhlova, C. W. Park, H. Park, H. K. Park, T. K. Pedlar, R. Pestotnik, M. Petrič, L. E. Piilonen, M. Prim, M. Ritter, M. Röhrken, A. Rostomyan, S. Ryu, H. Sahoo, T. Saito, Y. Sakai, S. Sandilya, L. Santelj, T. Sanuki, Y. Sato, V. Savinov, O. Schneider, G. Schnell, C. Schwanda, A. J. Schwartz, D. Semmler, K. Senyo, M. E. Sevior, M. Shapkin, C. P. Shen, T. -A. Shibata, J. -G. Shiu, B. Shwartz, A. Sibidanov, F. Simon, Y. -S. Sohn, A. Sokolov, E. Solovieva, M. Starič, M. Steder, T. Sumiyoshi, U. Tamponi, K. Tanida, G. Tatishvili, Y. Teramoto, K. Trabelsi, T. Tsuboyama, M. Uchida, T. Uglov, S. Uno, Y. Usov, S. E. Vahsen, C. Van Hulse, P. Vanhoefer, G. Varner, A. Vinokurova, V. Vorobyev, M. N. Wagner, C. H. Wang, M. -Z. Wang, P. Wang, X. L. Wang, M. Watanabe, Y. Watanabe, E. Won, Y. Yamashita, S. Yashchenko, Z. P. Zhang, V. Zhilich, V. Zhulanov

We present measurements of absolute branching fractions of hadronic and leptonic Ds+ decays to K- K+ pi+, anti-K0 K+, eta pi+, mu+ nu_mu and tau+ nu_tau and report a search for the leptonic Ds+ to e+ nu_e decays. The results are obtained from a large data sample collected at or near the Y(4S) and Y(5S) resonances with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. The branching fractions of hadronic decays are measured to be Br(Ds+ -> K- K+ pi+) = (5.06 +- 0.15 +- 0.21)%, Br(Ds+ -> anti-K0 K+) = (2.95 +- 0.11 +- 0.09)%, and Br(Ds+ -> eta pi+) = (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 Br(Ds+ -> mu+ nu_mu) = (0.531 +- 0.028 +- 0.020)%, and Br(Ds+ -> tau+ nu_tau) = (5.70 +- 0.21 +0.31-0.30)%, which are combined to determine the Ds+ meson decay constant f_Ds = (255.5 +- 4.2 +- 5.1) MeV. We find no significant signal for Ds+ -> e+ nu_e decays and set an upper limit of Br(Ds+ -> e+ nu_e) < 1.0 (0.83) x 10^-4 at 95% (90%) confidence level.

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