Exclusive Semileptonic $D_s$ Decays

ORAL

Abstract

We have measured several semileptonic branching fractions of the $D_s$ meson with 586~pb$^{-1}$ integrated luminosity collected by the CLEO-c detector near the $D_s\bar{D}^*_s$ peak production energy of $E_{cm} = 4170$~MeV in $e^+e^-$ collisions. We reconstruct the complete decays by tagging the hadronic decay of one $D_s$, identifying the photon produced by the $\bar{D}_s^*$ decay, and finding the electron and hadron of the semileptonic decay. By inferring the missing neutrino momentum, we count the number of reconstructed exclusive semileptonic decays and compute the branching fractions.

Authors

  • Jonathan Insler

    University of Rochester