A search for flavor changing neutral currents and lepton family number violation in neutral two-body charm decays

Technical Report · Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/539968· OSTI ID:539968

Pripstein, D A ^[1]

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1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics

This work presents a search for three rare/forbidden neutral charm decays, D{sup 0} {yields} {mu}e, D{sup 0} {yields} {mu}{mu}, and D{sup 0} {yields} ee. This study was based on data collected in Experiment E789 at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory using 800 GeV/c proton-gold interactions. Two statistical analyses are presented, one with background subtraction and the other without background subtraction. No evidence is found for any of the decays and the following upper limits are presented at the 90% confidence level.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 539968
• Report Number(s): LBNL-40586; ON: DE98000160; TRN: 97:019498
• Resource Relation: Other Information: TH: Thesis (Ph.D.); PBD: Jun 1997
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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