Observation of the Dalitz Decay D_{s}^{*+} to D_{s}⁺ e⁺ e⁻

D. Cronin-Hennessy , J. Hietala , S. Dobbs , Z. Metreveli , K. K. Seth , A. Tomaradze , T. Xiao , L. Martin

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A. Powell G. Wilkinson H. Mendez J. Y. Ge D. H. Miller I. P. J. Shipsey B. Xin G. S. Adams D. Hu B. Moziak J. Napolitano K. M. Ecklund J. Insler H. Muramatsu C. S. Park L. J. Pearson E. H. Thorndike S. Ricciardi C. Thomas M. Artuso S. Blusk R. Mountain T. Skwarnicki S. Stone L. M. Zhang G. Bonvicini D. Cinabro A. Lincoln M. J. Smith P. Zhou J. Zhu P. Naik J. Rademacker D. M. Asner K. W. Edwards K. Randrianarivony G. Tatishvili R. A. Briere H. Vogel P. U. E. Onyisi J. L. Rosner J. P. Alexander D. G. Cassel S. Das R. Ehrlich L. Gibbons S. W. Gray D. L. Hartill B. K. Heltsley D. L. Kreinick V. E. Kuznetsov J. R. Patterson D. Peterson D. Riley A. Ryd A. J. Sadoff X. Shi W. M. Sun J. Yelton P. Rubin N. Lowrey S. Mehrabyan M. Selen J. Wiss J. Libby M. Kornicer R. E. Mitchell M. R. Shepherd C. M. Tarbert D. Besson T. K. Pedlar

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Using 586 $\textrm{pb}^{-1}$ of $e^{+}e^{-}$ collision data acquired at $\sqrt{s}=4.170$ GeV with the CLEO-c detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we report the first observation of $D_{s}^{*+} \to D_{s}^{+} e^{+} e^{-}$ with a significance of $5.3 \sigma$. The ratio of branching fractions $\calB(D_{s}^{*+} \to D_{s}^{+} e^{+} e^{-}) / \calB(D_{s}^{*+} \to D_{s}^{+} \gamma)$ is measured to be $[ 0.72^{+0.15}_{-0.13} (\textrm{stat}) \pm 0.10 (\textrm{syst})]%$, which is consistent with theoretical expectations.

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Observation of the Dalitz Decay D_{s}^{*+} to D_{s}⁺ e⁺ e⁻

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