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Evidence for new interference phenomena in the decay D+ to K- pi+ mu+ nu

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2012-08-27 v1

Abstract

Using a large sample of charm semileptonic decays collected by the FOCUS photoproduction experiment at Fermilab, we present evidence for a small, even spin K- \pi+ amplitude that interferes with the dominant K*0 component in the K-pi+ mu- nu final state. Although this interference significantly distorts the decay angular distributions, the new amplitude creates only a very small distortion to the observed kaon pion mass distribution when integrated over the other kinematic variables describing the decay. Our data can be described by K*0 interference with either a constant amplitude or broad spin zero resonance.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0203031,
  title  = {Evidence for new interference phenomena in the decay D+ to K- pi+ mu+ nu},
  author = {The FOCUS Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0203031},
  year   = {2012}
}

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14 pages, 9 figures