Dobbs S, Metreveli Z, Seth KK, Tomaradze A, Xiao T, Martin L, Powell A, Wilkinson G, Mendez H, Asner DM, Tatishvili G, Ge JY, Huang GS, Miller DH, Pavlunin V, Shipsey IPJ, Xin B, Adams GS, Hu D, Moziak B, Napolitano J, Ecklund KM, Insler J, Muramatsu H, Park CS, Pearson LJ, Thorndike EH, Ricciardi S, Thomas C, Artuso M, Blusk S, Mountain R, Skwarnicki T, Stone S, Zhang LM, Bonvicini G, Cinabro D, Lincoln A, Smith MJ, Zhou P, Zhu J, Naik P, Rademacker J, Edwards KW, Randrianarivony K, Briere RA, Vogel H, Onyisi PUE, Rosner JL, Alexander JP, Cassel DG, Das S, Ehrlich R, Gibbons L, Gray SW, Hartill DL, Heltsley BK, Kreinick DL, Kuznetsov VE, Patterson JR, Peterson D, Riley D, Ryd A, Sadoff AJ, Shi X, Sun WM, Yelton J, Rubin P, Lowrey N, Mehrabyan S, Selen M, Wiss J, Libby J, Kornicer M, Mitchell RE, Tarbert CM, Besson D, Pedlar TK, Cronin-Hennessy D, Hietala J. First measurement of the form factors in the decays D0 → ρ- e+ ν(e) and D+ → ρ0 e+ ν(e).
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013;
110:131802. [PMID:
23581310 DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.110.131802]
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Abstract
The beauty to up quark coupling constant |V(ub)| can be extracted from B → ρ e+ ν(e) combined with the form factors for D → K* e+ ν(e) and B → V ℓ+ ℓ- and D → ρ e+ ν(e). Using the entire CLEO-c ψ(3770) → DD event sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 818 pb(-1) and approximately 5.4×10(6) DD events, we measure the form factors for the decays D0 → ρ- e+ ν(e) and D+ → ρ0 e+ ν(e) for the first time and the branching fractions with improved precision. A four-dimensional unbinned maximum likelihood fit determines the form factor ratios to be V(0)/A1(0)=1.48±0.15±0.05 and A2(0)/A1(0)=0.83±0.11±0.04. Assuming Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa unitarity, the known D meson lifetimes, and our measured branching fractions we obtain the form factor normalizations A1(0), A2(0), and V(0). We also present a measurement of the branching fraction for D+ → ω e+ ν(e) with improved precision.
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