Download or read book Absolute Measurement of Hadronic Branching Fractions of Charmed-strange Mesons written by Peter Uchenna Ezenweze Onyisi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The branching fractions of decays of the D+s meson normalize many measurements of processes involving charm quarks. Using 298 pb-1 of e+e- collisions recorded by the CLEO-c detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we determine absolute branching fractions for eight D+s decays with a double tag technique. In particular we determine the branching fraction BD+s & rarr; K-K +pi+) = (5.50 +/- 0.23 +/- 0.16)%, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic respectively. The uncertainty in these determinations is roughly a factor of two better than previous world averages. We also search for possible CP asymmetries and provide partial branching fractions for kinematic subsets of the K-K+pi + decay mode.