Publication - Journal Article Measurements of branching fractions of leptonic and hadronic $ D_s^{+} $ meson decays and extraction of the $ D_s^{+} $ meson decay constant

Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2013, iss. 9, 2013

, A. Zupanc, I. Adachi, H. Aihara, K. Arinstein, D. M. Asner, T. Aushev, A. M. Bakich, A. Bala, B. Bhuyan, G. Bonvicini, A. Bozek, M. Bračko, J. Brodzicka, T. E. Browder, M.-C. Chang, P. Chang, V. Chekelian, A. Chen, P. Chen, B. G. Cheon, K. Chilikin, R. Chistov, K. Cho, V. Chobanova, S.-K. Choi, Y. Choi, D. Cinabro, J. Dalseno, M. Danilov, Z. Doležal, Z. Drásal, D. Dutta, S. Eidelman, H. Farhat, J. E. Fast, T. Ferber, V. Gaur, N. Gabyshev, S. Ganguly, R. Gillard, Y. M. Goh, B. Golob, J. Haba, T. Hara, K. Hayasaka, H. Hayashii, Y. Horii, Y. Hoshi, W.-S. Hou, Y. B. Hsiung, H. J. Hyun, T. Iijima, K. Inami, A. Ishikawa, R. Itoh, Y. Iwasaki, T. Iwashita, I. Jaegle, T. Julius, E. Kato, H. Kawai, T. Kawasaki, H. Kichimi, C. Kiesling, D. Y. Kim, H. O. Kim, J. B. Kim, J. H. Kim, M. J. Kim, Y. J. Kim, K. Kinoshita, J. Klucar, B. R. Ko, P. Kodyš, S. Korpar, P. Križan, P. Krokovny, B. Kronenbitter, T. Kuhr, T. Kumita, A. Kuzmin, Y.-J. Kwon, J. S. Lange, S.-H. Lee, J. Li, J. Libby, Z. Q. Liu, D. Liventsev, P. Lukin, H. Miyata, R. Mizuk, G. B. Mohanty, A. Moll, R. Mussa, E. Nakano, M. Nakao, E. Nedelkovska, N. K. Nisar, S. Nishida, O. Nitoh, S. Ogawa, S. Okuno, G. Pakhlova, C. W. Park, H. Park, H. K. Park, T. K. Pedlar, R. Pestotnik, M. Petrič, L. E. Piilonen, M. Prim, M. Ritter, M. Röhrken, A. Rostomyan, S. Ryu, H. Sahoo, T. Saito, Y. Sakai, S. Sandilya, L. Šantelj, T. Sanuki, Y. Sato, V. Savinov, O. Schneider, G. Schnell, C. Schwanda, A. J. Schwartz, D. Semmler, K. Senyo, M. E. Sevior, M. Shapkin, C. P. Shen, T.-A. Shibata, J.-G. Shiu, B. Shwartz, A. Sibidanov, F. Simon, Y.-S. Sohn, A. Sokolov, E. Solovieva, M. Starič, M. Steder, T. Sumiyoshi, U. Tamponi, K. Tanida, G. Tatishvili, Y. Teramoto, K. Trabelsi, T. Tsuboyama, M. Uchida, T. Uglov, S. Uno, Y. Usov, S. E. Vahsen, C. Van Hulse, P. Vanhoefer, G. Varner, A. Vinokurova, V. Vorobyev, M. N. Wagner, C. H. Wang, M.-Z. Wang, P. Wang, X. L. Wang, M. Watanabe, Y. Watanabe, E. Won, Y. Yamashita, S. Yashchenko, Z. P. Zhang, V. Zhilich, V. Zhulanov

Abstract We present measurements of absolute branching fractions of hadronic and lep-tonic $ D_s^{+} $ decays to K − K + π +, $ {{\overline{K}}^0} $ K +, ηπ +, μ + ν μ and τ + ν τ and report a search for the leptonic $ D_s^{+} $ → e + ν e decays. The results are obtained from a data sample of 913 fb−1 collected at or near the $ \varUpsilon $ (4S) and $ \varUpsilon $ (5S) resonances with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e + e − collider. The branching fractions of hadronic decays are measured to be $ \begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {\mathcal{B}\left( {D_s^{+}\ \to\ {K^{-}}{K^{+}}{\pi^{+}}} \right) = \left( {5.06\pm 0.15\pm 0.21} \right)\%,} \\ {\mathcal{B}\left( {D_s^{+}\ \to\ {{\overline{K}}^0}{K^{+}}} \right) = \left( {2.95\pm 0.11\pm 0.09} \right)\%,} \\ {\mathcal{B}\left( {D_s^{+}\ \to\ \eta {\pi^{+}}} \right) = \left( {1.82\pm 0.14\pm 0.07} \right)\%,} \\ \end{array} $ where the first and second uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. The branching fractions of leptonic decays are measured to be $ \begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {\mathcal{B}\left( {D_s^{+}\ \to\ {\mu^{+}}{\nu_{\mu }}} \right)=\left( {0.531\pm 0.028\pm 0.020} \right)\%,} \\ {\mathcal{B}\left( {D_s^{+}\to {\tau^{+}}{\nu_{\tau }}} \right)=\left( {5.70\pm 0.21_{-0.30}^{-0.31 }} \right)\%,} \\ \end{array} $ which are combined to determine the $ D_s^{+} $ meson decay constant $ {f_{{{D_s}}}}=\left( {255.5\pm 4.2\pm 5.1} \right)\ \mathrm{MeV}. $ We find no significant signal for $ D_s^{+} $ → e + ν e decays and set an upper limit of $ \mathcal{B}\left( {D_s^{+}\ \to\ {e^{+}}{\nu_e}} \right) $ < 1.0(0.83) × 10−4 at 95% (90%) confidence level.