Measurement of the branching fractions of the decays D+ → K−K+K+, D+ → π−π+K+ and Ds+ → π−K+K+

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Abstract

The branching fractions of the doubly Cabibbo-suppressed decays D + → K K + K + , D + → π π + K + and D s + → π K + K + are measured using the decays D + → K π + π + and D s + → K K + π + as normalisation channels. The measurements are performed using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0 fb −1 . The results areℬ(D+→K−K+K+)ℬ(D+→K−π+π+)=(6.541±0.025±0.042)×10−4,ℬ(D+→π−π+K+)ℬ(D+→K−π+π+)=(5.231±0.009±0.023)×10−3,ℬ(Ds+→π−K+K+)ℬ(Ds+→K−K+π+),=(2.372±0.024±0.025)×10−3, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. These are the most precise measurements up to date.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Original languageEnglish
Article number176
Pages (from-to)1-24
Number of pages24
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2019
Issue number3
Early online date27 Mar 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2019

Funding

We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); MOST and NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); NWO (Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MSHE (Russia); MinECo (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (U.S.A.). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland) and OSC (U.S.A.). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have received support from AvH Foundation (Germany); EPLANET, Marie Sklo dowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union); ANR, Labex P2IO and OCEVU, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France); Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, and the Thousand Talents Program (China); RFBR, RSF and Yandex LLC (Russia); GVA, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain); the Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom); Laboratory Directed Research and Development program of LANL (U.S.A.). 52 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom 53 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom 54 Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom 55 Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom 56 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom 57 Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom 58 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States 59 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States 60 University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States 61 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States 62 Laboratory of Mathematical and Subatomic Physics, Constantine, Algeria, associated to 63 Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, associated to 2 64 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, associated to 65 South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China, associated to 3 66 School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, associated to 67 Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, associated to 3 68 Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, associated to 69 Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany, associated to 12 70 Van Swinderen Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, associated to 71 National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia, associated to 34 72 National University of Science and Technology “MISIS”, Moscow, Russia, associated to 73 National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russia 74 National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia, associated to 34 75 Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia — CSIC, Valencia, Spain, associated to 40 76 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, associated to 61 77 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, United States, associated to v MSU — Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT), Iligan, Philippines w Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia x Sezione INFN di Trieste, Trieste, Italy y Escuela Agrícola Panamericana, San Antonio de Oriente, Honduras z School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU), Xi’an, China Physics and Micro Electronic College, Hunan University, Changsha City, China National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

FundersFunder number
Not added1796908, ST/N000331/1, ST/N000242/1
Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS
MSHE
Marie Sklo dowska-Curie Actions
OCEVU
XuntaGal
Yandex LLC
National Science Foundation
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Laboratory Directed Research and Development
Los Alamos National Laboratory
CERN
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilST/L003163/1
Leverhulme Trust
Royal Society
European Research Council
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung166208
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Generalitat Valenciana
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Russian Science Foundation
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Recruitment Program of Global Experts
Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
Sociedad Española de Reumatología

    Keywords

    • Branching fraction
    • Charm physics
    • Flavor physics
    • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)

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