Recent charm results from CLEO-c.pdf

a r X i v : 0 7 0 6 .0 7 1 8 v 2 [ h e p - e x ] 1 2 J u n 2 0 0 7 RECENT CHARM RESULTS FROM CLEO-C Istva?n Danko? (for the CLEO Collaboration) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180, USA Abstract The CLEO-c experiment has been collecting data at the charm-threshold re- gion. A selection of recent results on charmed meson and charmonia decays are presented. 1 Introduction The CLEO-c experiment has been taking data at the CESR symmetric e+e? collider at the charm threshold region since 2003. The main goal of the ex- periment is to perform high precision measurements of hadronic branching fractions, leptonic decay constants, and semileptonic form factors of charmed mesons, together with an extensive study of QCD spectroscopy in the charmo- nium sector in order to provide rigorous constraints on the strong interaction theory, especially Lattice QCD calculations. If the theoretical calculations sur- vive these tests they can be used to provide much needed theoretical input to extract quark mixing (CKM) matrix elements (e.g. Vub, Vtd and Vts), which remain limited by complications caused by strong interaction dynamics. The selected topics discussed here are the measurement of the absolute branching fraction of Cabibbo-favored hadronic D0, D+, and Ds decays; mea- surement of the leptonic decays, D+(s) → ? +ν, and decay constants fD(s) ; mea- surement of the D0 mass; and a study of three-body hadronic decays of χcJ . Charged and neutral D mesons are produced at the ψ(3770) which pre- dominantly decays to D+D? and D0D?0 with a total cross section of about 7 nb. Ds mesons are created at around Ecm = 4170 MeV, where their pro- duction is dominated by e+e? → D?±s D ? s with a cross section about 0.9 nb 1). The 13PJ (J = 0, 1, 2) charmonium states are produced in radiative ψ(2S) decays with a branching fraction of 9% to each. The main advantage of the CLEO experiment compared to B factories and fixed target experiments is the very clean experimental environment