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 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