The rare decays of D mesons.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - p h / 0 2 0 8 2 0 1 v 1 2 2 A u g 2 0 0 2 The rare decays of D mesons S. Fajferab?, A. Prapotnikb, S. Prelovs?ekab, P. Singerc, and J. Zupanb aPhysics Department, University of Ljubljana, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia bJ. Stefan Institute, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia cDepartment of Physics, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa IL-32000, Israel The flavor changing transitions in the c → uγ, c → uγγ and c → ul+l? offer the possibility to search for new physics in the charm sector. We investigate dominant decay mechanisms in the radiative decays D → V γ, D → P (V )l+l?, D → γγ and we discuss chances to see physics beyond the standard model in these decays. In addition, we analyze Cabibbo allowed D → Kπγ decays with nonresonant Kπ, and we probe the role of light vector mesons in these decays. The search for physics beyond the standard model has been focused on the down-like quark sector, while the up-like quark sector has been less researched. The rare D decays offer an op- portunity to investigate the FCNC effects in the charm sector. To date, no radiative or dilepton weak decay of D has been detected. Only upper bounds have been established so far for a sizable number of the radiative or dilepton weak decay of D mesons. The radiative decays D0 → ρ0, ω0, φ, K??0 +γ were recently bounded [1] to branching ratios in the 10?4 range, which is approaching the standard model expectations (see, e.g. [2] where additional previous works are listed). The dilep- ton decays D → Pl+l?, D → V l+l? are the sub- ject of intensive searches at CLEO and Fermilab [3] - [5]. Here again, with upper bounds of . 10?5 for branching ratios of the various modes one ap- proaches the expectations of the standard model [6–9]. The situation should improve in the future, due to new possibilities for observation of charm meson decays at BELLE, BABAR and Tevatron. Recently, upper limits in the 10?5 ? 10?4 range were established [4,5] also for D0 dilepton decays with tw