Review of Charm Lifetimes

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1999-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9912021v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

Talk presented at the 8th International Symposium on Heavy Flavour Physics, Southampton, U.K., 25--29 July 1999

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A review of the latest experimental results on charm particle lifetimes is presented. The most significant update is that the D_s^+ lifetime is conclusively larger than the D^0 lifetime and signifies that W-exchange/W-annihilation contributions are large. Using new high statistics data on $D^+\to K^+\pi^+\pi^-$ together with the D_s^+ lifetime and some assumptions, one can phenomenologically extract the strength of the W-exchange contribution in D^0 decays and of W-annihilation in D_s^+ decays. These are larger than or at the limit of theoretical expectations using QCD-based operator production expansion techniques.

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