Measurement of the $D^{0}$ Lifetime

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4 June 1984

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 52 (23), 2019-2021
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.52.2019

Abstract

We have used an electronic tracking system to measure the lifetime of

D^{0}

mesons produced in

e^{+} e^{-}

annihilation at 29 GeV. Based on a sample of 27 events, the lifetime is found to be (

{4.2}_{- 1.0}^{+ 1.3}

±1.0) ×

10^{- 13}

s.

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