TY - JOUR
T1 - Study of Λc+ → Λμ+νμ and test of lepton flavor universality with Λc+ → Λℓ+νℓ decays
AU - BESIII Collaboration
AU - Ablikim, M.
AU - Achasov, M. N.
AU - Kalantar-Nayestanaki, N.
AU - Kappert, R.
AU - Kavatsyuk, M.
AU - Messchendorp, J.
AU - Rodin, V.
N1 - Funding Information:
The BESIII Collaboration thanks the staff of BEPCII and the IHEP computing center for their strong support. This work is supported in part by National Key R&D Program of China under Contracts No. 2020YFA0406400 and No. 2020YFA0406300; National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC) of China under Contracts No. 11635010, No. 11735014, No. 11835012, No. 11935015, No. 11935016, No. 11935018, No. 11961141012, No. 12022510, No. 12025502, No. 12035009, No. 12035013, No. 12061131003, No. 12192260, No. 12192261, No. 12192262, No. 12192263, No. 12192264, and No. 12192265; the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Large-Scale Scientific Facility Program; the CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics; Joint Large-Scale Scientific Facility Funds of the NSFC and CAS under Contract No. U1832207; CAS Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences under Contracts No. QYZDJ-SSW-SLH003 and No. QYZDJ-SSW-SLH040; 100 Talents Program of CAS; The Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics and Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology; ERC under Contract No. 758462; European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement under Contract No. 894790; German Research Foundation DFG under Contracts No. 443159800 and No. 455635585, Collaborative Research Center CRC 1044, FOR5327, GRK 2149; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; Ministry of Development of Turkey under Contract No. DPT2006K-120470; National Research Foundation of Korea under Contract No. NRF-2022R1A2C1092335; National Science and Technology Fund of Mongolia; National Science Research and Innovation Fund via the Program Management Unit for Human Resources & Institutional Development, Research and Innovation of Thailand under Contract No. B16F640076; Polish National Science Centre under Contract No. 2019/35/O/ST2/02907; The Royal Society, UK under Contract No. DH160214; The Swedish Research Council; U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-FG02-05ER41374.
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PY - 2023/8/18
Y1 - 2023/8/18
N2 - The study of the Cabibbo-favored semileptonic decay Λc+→Λμ+νμ is reported using 4.5 fb-1 of e+e- annihilation data collected at center-of-mass energies ranging from 4.600 to 4.699 GeV. The branching fraction of the decay is measured to be B(Λc+→Λμ+νμ)=(3.48±0.14stat±0.10syst)%, 3 times more precise than the prior world average result. Tests of lepton flavor universality using Λc+→Λℓ+νℓ (ℓ=e, μ) decays are reported for the first time, based on measurements of the differential decay rates and the forward-backward asymmetries in separate four-momentum transfer regions. The results are compatible with Standard Model predictions. Furthermore, we improve the determination of the form-factor parameters in Λc+→Λℓ+νℓ decays, which provide stringent tests and calibration for lattice quantum chromodynamics calculations.
AB - The study of the Cabibbo-favored semileptonic decay Λc+→Λμ+νμ is reported using 4.5 fb-1 of e+e- annihilation data collected at center-of-mass energies ranging from 4.600 to 4.699 GeV. The branching fraction of the decay is measured to be B(Λc+→Λμ+νμ)=(3.48±0.14stat±0.10syst)%, 3 times more precise than the prior world average result. Tests of lepton flavor universality using Λc+→Λℓ+νℓ (ℓ=e, μ) decays are reported for the first time, based on measurements of the differential decay rates and the forward-backward asymmetries in separate four-momentum transfer regions. The results are compatible with Standard Model predictions. Furthermore, we improve the determination of the form-factor parameters in Λc+→Λℓ+νℓ decays, which provide stringent tests and calibration for lattice quantum chromodynamics calculations.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.L031105
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.L031105
M3 - Letter
SN - 2470-0010
VL - 108
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
IS - 3
M1 - L031105
ER -