Observation of the Singly Cabibbo Suppressed Decay ?c+ ?np+

Date Issued
08-04-2022
Author(s)
Ablikim, M.
Achasov, M. N.
Adlarson, P.
Ahmed, S.
Albrecht, M.
Aliberti, R.
Amoroso, A.
An, M. R.
An, Q.
Bai, X. H.
Bai, Y.
Bakina, O.
Ferroli, R. Baldini
Balossino, I.
Ban, Y.
Begzsuren, K.
Berger, N.
Bertani, M.
Bettoni, D.
Bianchi, F.
Bloms, J.
Bortone, A.
Boyko, I.
Briere, R. A.
Cai, H.
Cai, X.
Calcaterra, A.
Cao, G. F.
Cao, N.
Cetin, S. A.
Chang, J. F.
Chang, W. L.
Chelkov, G.
Chen, D. Y.
Chen, G.
Chen, H. S.
Chen, M. L.
Chen, S. J.
Chen, X. R.
Chen, Y. B.
Chen, Z. J.
Cheng, W. S.
Cibinetto, G.
Cossio, F.
Cui, X. F.
Dai, H. L.
Dai, J. P.
Dai, X. C.
Dbeyssi, A.
De Boer, R. E.
Dedovich, D.
Deng, Z. Y.
Denig, A.
Denysenko, I.
Destefanis, M.
De Mori, F.
Ding, Y.
Dong, C.
Dong, J.
Dong, L. Y.
Dong, M. Y.
Dong, X.
Du, S. X.
Egorov, P.
Fan, Y. L.
Fang, J.
Fang, S. S.
Fang, Y.
Farinelli, R.
Fava, L.
Feldbauer, F.
Felici, G.
Feng, C. Q.
Feng, J. H.
Fritsch, M.
Fu, C. D.
Gao, Y.
Gao, Y.
Gao, Y. G.
Garzia, I.
Ge, P. T.
Geng, C.
Gersabeck, E. M.
Gilman, A.
Goetzen, K.
Gong, L.
Gong, W. X.
Gradl, W.
Greco, M.
Gu, L. M.
Gu, M. H.
Guan, C. Y.
Guo, A. Q.
Guo, A. Q.
Guo, L. B.
Guo, R. P.
Guo, Y. P.
Guskov, A.
Han, T. T.
Han, W. Y.
DOI
Abstract
The singly Cabibbo-suppressed decay ?c+?np+ is observed for the first time with a statistical significance of 7.3s by using 3.9 fb-1 of e+e-collision data collected at center-of-mass energies between 4.612 and 4.699 GeV with the BESIII detector at BEPCII. The branching fraction of ?c+?np+ is measured to be (6.6±1.2stat±0.4syst)×10-4. By taking the upper limit of branching fractions of ?c+?pp0 from the Belle experiment, the ratio of branching fractions between ?c+?np+ and ?c+?pp0 is calculated to be larger than 7.2 at the 90% confidence level, which disagrees with most predictions of the available phenomenological models. In addition, the branching fractions of the Cabibbo-favored decays ?c+?p+ and ?c+?0p+ are measured to be (1.31±0.08stat±0.05syst)×10-2 and (1.22±0.08stat±0.07syst)×10-2, respectively, which are consistent with previous results.
Volume
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