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Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 1311–1315 (1993)

Measurement of the ratio scrB(D+π0l+ν)/scrB(D+K¯0l+ν)

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M. S. Alam et al.
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Received 16 June 1993; published in the issue dated 30 August 1993

Using the CLEO-II detector, the branching ratio of the Cabibbo suppressed decay D+π0l+ν, relative to the branching ratio of the Cabibbo favored decay D+K¯0l+ν, is measured to be B(D+π0l+ν)/B(D+K¯0l+ν) =(8.5±2.7±1.4)%. From this ratio, the product of the ratio of Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements, ‖Vcd/Vcs2, and the form factors at q2=0, ‖f+π(0)/f+K(0)2, is determined to be ‖Vcd/Vcs2f+π(0)/f+K(0)2 =0.085±0.027±0.014.

© 1993 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.1311
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.1311
PACS:
13.20.Fc, 14.40.Jz