Measurement of the branching ratios for the decays of D_s⁺ to ηπ⁺, η′π⁺, ηρ⁺, and η′ρ⁺

Authors

C. P. Jessop, Stanford University
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
CLEO Collaboration

Date of this Version

9-1-1998

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. D 58, 052002 (1998). http://prd.aps.org. Copyright © 1998 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

Using a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 3.9 fb^-1 collected in e⁺e^- annihilation with the CLEO-II detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we have measured the branching ratios for the decay modes D_s⁺ → (η, η′)π⁺ and D_s⁺ → (η, η′)ρ⁺ relative to D_s⁺ → φπ⁺. These decay modes are among the most common hadronic decays of the D_s⁺, and can be related by factorization to the semileptonic decays D_s⁺ → (η, η′)ℓ⁺ν₁ . The results obtained are compared with previous CLEO results and with the branching ratios measured for the related semileptonic decays. We also report results on the Cabibbo-suppressed decays of the D⁺ to the same final states.