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Measurement of the absolute branching fractions for Ds-→ℓ -ν̄ℓ and extraction of the decay constant fDs
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Del Amo Sanchez, P; Lees, JP; Poireau, V; Prencipe, E; Tisserand, V; Garra Tico, J; Grauges, E; Martinelli, M; Palano, A; Pappagallo, M; Eigen, G; Stugu, B; Sun, L; Battaglia, M; Brown, DN; Hooberman, B; Kerth, LT; Kolomensky, YG; Lynch, G; Osipenkov, IL; Tanabe, T; Hawkes, CM; Watson, AT; Koch, H; Schroeder, T; Asgeirsson, DJ; Hearty, C; Mattison, TS; McKenna, JA; Khan, A; Randle-Conde, A; Blinov, VE; Buzykaev, AR; Druzhinin, VP; Golubev, VB; Onuchin, AP; Serednyakov, SI; Skovpen, YI; Solodov, EP; Todyshev, KY; Yushkov, AN; Bondioli, M; Curry, S; Kirkby, D; Lankford, AJ; Mandelkern, M; Martin, EC; Stoker, DP; Atmacan, H; Gary, JW; Liu, F; Long, O; Vitug, GM; Campagnari, C; Hong, TM; Kovalskyi, D; Richman, JD; West, C; Eisner, AM; Heusch, CA; Kroseberg, J; Lockman, WS; Martinez, AJ; Schalk, T; Schumm, BA; Seiden, A; Winstrom, LO; Cheng, CH; Doll, DA; Echenard, B; Hitlin, DG; Ongmongkolkul, P; Porter, FC; Rakitin, AY; Andreassen, R; Dubrovin, MS; Mancinelli, G; Meadows, BT; Sokoloff, MD; Bloom, PC; Ford, WT; Gaz, A; Nagel, M; Nauenberg, U; Smith, JG; Wagner, SR; Ayad, R; Toki, WH; Jasper, H; Karbach, TM; Merkel, J; Petzold, A; Spaan, B; Wacker, K; Kobel, MJ; Schubert, KR; Schwierz, R; Bernard, D; Verderi, M; Clark, PJ
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Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 82(9)
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The absolute branching fractions for the decays Ds-→ℓ -ν̄ℓ (ℓ=e, μ, or τ) are measured using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 521fb -1 collected at center-of-mass energies near 10.58 GeV with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- collider at SLAC. The number of Ds- mesons is determined by reconstructing the recoiling system DKXγ in events of the type e+e-→DKXDs*-, where Ds*-→Ds-γ and X represents additional pions from fragmentation. The Ds-→ℓ-νℓ events are detected by full or partial reconstruction of the recoiling system DKXγℓ. The branching fraction measurements are combined to determine the Ds- decay constant fD s=(258.6±6.4±7.5)MeV, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. © 2010 The American Physical Society.