Recent Results from Fermilab Charm Experiment E791.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - e x / 9 9 0 3 0 6 7 v 2 1 2 A p r 1 9 9 9 Recent Results from Fermilab Charm Experiment E791 David A. Sanders University of Mississippi Representing the Fermilab Experiment E791 Collaboration We report the results of some recent E791 charm analyses. They include 1) a search for rare and forbidden decays, 2) measurements of form factors for D+ → K?0?+ν ? and D+s → φ? +ν ? , and 3) D+s and D 0 lifetime measurements including the lifetime difference between D0 → K?π+ and D0 → K?K+. The latter is the first direct search for a possible lifetime difference that could contribute to D0 ?D 0 mixing. I. INTRODUCTION E791 is a high statistics charm experiment that acquired data at Fermilab during the 1991-1992 fixed-target run. The experiment combined a fast data acquisition system with an open trigger. Over 2× 1010 events were collected with the Tagged Photon Spectrometer [1] using a 500 GeV π? beam. There were five target foils with 15 mm center- to-center separations: one 0.5 mm thick platinum foil followed by four 1.6 mm thick diamond foils. The spectrometer included 23 planes of silicon microstrip detectors (6 upstream and 17 downstream of the target), 2 dipole magnets, 10 planes of proportional wire chambers (8 upstream and 2 downstream of the target), 35 drift chamber planes, 2 multi-cell C?erenkov counters that provided π/K separation in the 6-60 GeV/c momentum range [2], electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters, and a muon detector. II. RARE AND FORBIDDEN DECAYS OF D+, DS AND D 0 We report the preliminary results of a search for flavor-changing neutral-current (FCNC), lepton number violating (LNV) and lepton family violating (LFV) decays of D+, D+s and D 0, into modes1 containing muons and electrons. This analysis is an extension of our previous work [3]. The search for rare and forbidden decays provides another test of the Standard Model. The contribution, within the Standard Model, of short distance electroweak processes to the branching ra