Search for flavor-changing-neutral-current d meson decays

• Published in: Physical review letters Vol. 100; no. 10; p. 101801
• Main Authors: Abazov, V M, Abbott, B, Abolins, M, Acharya, B S, Adams, M, Adams, T, Aguilo, E, Ahn, S H, Ahsan, M, Alexeev, G D, Alkhazov, G, Alton, A, Alverson, G, Alves, G A, Anastasoaie, M, Ancu, L S, Andeen, T, Anderson, S, Andrieu, B, Anzelc, M S, Arnoud, Y, Arov, M, Arthaud, M, Askew, A, Asman, B, Assis Jesus, A C S, Atramentov, O, Autermann, C, Avila, C, Ay, C, Badaud, F, Baden, A, Bagby, L, Baldin, B, Bandurin, D V, Banerjee, S, Banerjee, P, Barberis, E, Barfuss, A-F, Bargassa, P, Baringer, P, Barreto, J, Bartlett, J F, Bassler, U, Bauer, D, Beale, S, Bean, A, Begalli, M, Begel, M, Belanger-Champagne, C, Bellantoni, L, Bellavance, A, Benitez, J A, Beri, S B, Bernardi, G, Bernhard, R, Berntzon, L, Bertram, I, Besançon, M, Beuselinck, R, Bezzubov, V A, Bhat, P C, Bhatnagar, V, Biscarat, C, Blazey, G, Blekman, F, Blessing, S, Bloch, D, Bloom, K, Boehnlein, A, Boline, D, Bolton, T A, Borissov, G, Bos, K, Bose, T, Brandt, A, Brock, R, Brooijmans, G, Bross, A, Brown, D, Buchanan, N J, Buchholz, D, Buehler, M, Buescher, V, Burdin, S, Burke, S, Burnett, T H, Buszello, C P, Butler, J M, Calfayan, P, Calvet, S, Cammin, J, Caron, S, Carvalho, W, Casey, B C K, Cason, N M, Castilla-Valdez, H, Chakrabarti, S, Chakraborty, D, Chan, K M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 14.03.2008
• ISSN: 0031-9007
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.101801

We study the flavor-changing-neutral-current process c-->u micro(+) micro(-) using 1.3 fb(-1) of pp[over ] collisions at square root s = 1.96 TeV recorded by the D0 detector operating at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We see clear indications of the charged-current mediated D(s)(+) and D(+)-->phipi(+) --> micro(+)micro(-)pi(+) final states with significance greater than 4 standard deviations above background for the D(+) state. We search for the continuum neutral-current decay of D(+)-->pi(+) micro(+) micro(-) in the dimuon invariant mass spectrum away from the phi resonance. We see no evidence of signal above background and set a limit of B(D(+) --> pi(+) micro(+) micro(-))<3.9 x 10(-6) at the 90% C.L. This limit places the most stringent constraint on new phenomena in the c--> u micro(+) micro(-) transition.