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Review of Charm Lifetimes

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

A review of the latest experimental results on charm particle lifetimes is presented. The most significant update is that the D_s^+ lifetime is conclusively larger than the D^0 lifetime and signifies that W-exchange/W-annihilation contributions are large. Using new high statistics data on D+K+π+πD^+\to K^+\pi^+\pi^- together with the D_s^+ lifetime and some assumptions, one can phenomenologically extract the strength of the W-exchange contribution in D^0 decays and of W-annihilation in D_s^+ decays. These are larger than or at the limit of theoretical expectations using QCD-based operator production expansion techniques.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9912021,
  title  = {Review of Charm Lifetimes},
  author = {Harry W. K. Cheung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9912021},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Talk presented at the 8th International Symposium on Heavy Flavour Physics, Southampton, U.K., 25--29 July 1999