Measurement of the Absolute Branching Fraction for Λ_c⁺ → Λe⁺ν_e
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2015-11-25
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Amer Physical Soc
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We report the first measurement of the absolute branching fraction for Λ_c⁺. This measurement is based on 567 pb⁻¹ of e⁺e⁻ annihilation data produced at √s = 4.599 GeV, which is just above the Λ_c⁺ Λ̅_c̅ threshold. The data were collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII storage rings. The branching fraction is determined to be ℬ(Λ_c⁺ → Λe⁺ν_e) = [3.63 ± 0.38(stat) ± 0.20(syst)]%, representing a significant improvement in precision over the current indirect determination. As the branching fraction for Λ_c⁺ → Λe⁺ν_e is the benchmark for those of other Λ_c⁺ semileptonic channels, our result provides a unique test of different theoretical models, which is the most stringent to date.
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Semileptonic decays, Baryons, Quarks, Annihilation reactions, Branching fractions (Nuclear physics), Lambda baryons
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This work is supported in part by National Key Basic Research Program of China under Contract No. 2015CB856700; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Contracts No. 11125525, No. 11235011, No. 11275266, No. 11322544, No. 11322544, No. 11335008, No. 11425524, and No. 11505010; the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Large-Scale Scientific Facility Program; the CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics (CCEPP); the Collaborative Innovation Center for Particles and Interactions (CICPI); Joint Large-Scale Scientific Facility Funds of the NSFC and CAS under Contracts No. 11179007, No. U1232201, and No. U1332201; CAS under Contracts No. KJCX2-YW-N29 and No. KJCX2-YW-N45; 100 Talents Program of CAS; National 1000 Talents Program of China; INPAC and Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology; German Research Foundation DFG under Contract No. Collaborative Research Center CRC-1044; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) under Contract No. 530-4CDP03; Ministry of Development of Turkey under Contract No. DPT2006K-120470; Russian Foundation for Basic Research under Contract No. 14-07-91152; The Swedish Resarch Council; U. S. Department of Energy under Contracts No. DE-FG02-04ER41291, No. DE-FG02-05ER41374, No. DE-SC0012069, and No. DESC0010118; U.S. National Science Foundation; University of Groningen (RuG) and the Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung GmbH (GSI), Darmstadt; and WCU Program of National Research Foundation of Korea under Contract No. R32-2008-000-10155-0.
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