Direct measurement of the cross sections for D0 anti-D0, D+ D- and D anti-D production by e+ e- annihilation at the center-of-mass energy s**(1/2) = 3.773-GeV

Collaboration
2005
11 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 727 (2005) 395-405
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The cross sections for D 0 D ¯ 0 , D + D − and D D ¯ production by e + e − annihilation at the center-of-mass energy s = 3.773  GeV have been directly measured with the BES-II detector at the BEPC collider. The measurement of the cross sections is made by analyzing both the singly tagged D events and the doubly tagged D D ¯ events from the data sample of about 17.3 pb −1 collected at s = 3.773  GeV . The observed cross sections are σ D 0 D ¯ 0 obs = ( 3.47 ± 0.32 ± 0.21 )  nb , σ D + D − obs = ( 2.46 ± 0.33 ± 0.20 )  nb and σ D D ¯ obs = ( 5.93 ± 0.46 ± 0.35 )  nb , which correspond to the tree level cross sections to be σ D 0 D ¯ 0 = ( 4.45 ± 0.41 ± 0.32 )  nb , σ D + D − = ( 3.16 ± 0.42 ± 0.28 )  nb and σ D D ¯ = ( 7.61 ± 0.59 ± 0.54 )  nb , respectively.
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • D: pair production
  • D0: hadronic decay
  • D+: hadronic decay
  • channel cross section
  • BES
  • experimental results
  • Beijing Stor
  • electron positron --> D anti-D