Measurement of theD0,D+, andDs+lifetimes
- 1 May 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 37 (9), 2391-2402
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.37.2391
Abstract
We have measured the lifetimes of the , , and mesons which were produced by a high-energy photon beam incident on beryllium. Using the Fermilab Tagged Photon Spectrometer with a silicon-microstrip vertex detector we have collected events from which we have extracted about 4200 decays in the and modes, 3000 into the channel, and a total of 230 into φ and K . From an analysis of these events we have determined the lifetimes for the , , and to be 0.422±0.008±0.010, 1.090±0.030±0.025, and 0.47±0.04±0.02 psec, respectively.
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