A Direct measurement of the pseudoscalar decay constant, f(D(s))

The BES collaboration Bai, J.Z. ; Bardon, O. ; Blum, Ira K. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 74 (1995) 4599-4602, 1995.
Inspire Record 382314 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.50375

The Beijing Spectrometer (BES) experiment has observed purely leptonic decays of the Ds meson in the reaction e+e−→Ds+Ds− at a c.m. energy of 4.03 GeV. Three events are observed in which one Ds decays hadronically to φπ, K¯*0K, or K¯0K, and the other decays leptonically to μνμ or τντ. With the assumption of μ−τ universality, values of the branching fraction, B(Ds→μνμ)=(1.5−0.6−0.2+1.3+0.3)%, and the Ds pseudoscalar decay constant, fDs=(4.3−1.3−0.4+1.5+0.4)×102 MeV, are obtained.

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In this table CONST is the pseudoscalar decay constant, f_[D/S].