Download or read book Rare and Forbidden Decays of D Mesons written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors summarize the results of two recent searches for flavor-changing neutral current, lepton-flavor violating, and lepton-number violating decays of D[sup+], D[sub s][sup+], and D[sup 0] mesons (and their antiparticles) into modes containing muons and electrons. using data from Fermilab charm hadroproduction experiment E791, they examined D[sup+] and D[sub s][sup+][pi][ell][ell] and[Kappa][ell][ell] decay modes and the D[sup 0] dilepton decay modes containing either[ell][sup+][ell][sup[minus]], a[rho][sup 0], [bar[Kappa]]*[sup 0], or[phi] vector meson, or a non-resonant[pi][pi], [Kappa][pi], or[Kappa][Kappa] pair of pseudoscalar mesons. No evidence for any of these decays was found. Therefore, the authors presented branching-fraction upper limits at 90% confidence level for the 51 decay modes examined. Twenty-six of these modes had no previously reported limits, and eighteen of the remainder were reported with significant improvements over previously published results.