Measurement of the branching fractions of the decays $D^{+}\to K^{-}{K}^{+}{K}^{+}$, $D^{+}\to {\pi }^{-}{\pi }^{+}{K}^{+}$ and $D_s^{+}\to {\pi }^{-}{K}^{+}{K}^{+}$

Abstract

The branching fractions of the doubly Cabibbo-suppressed decays $D^{+}\to K^{-}{K}^{+}{K}^{+}$, $D^{+}\to {\pi }^{-}{\pi }^{+}{K}^{+}$ and $D_s^{+}\to {\pi }^{-}{K}^{+}{K}^{+}$ are measured using the decays $D^{+}\to K^{-}{\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{+}$ and $D_s^{+}\to K^{-}{K}^{+}{\pi }^{+}$ as normalisation channels. The measurements are performed using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0 fb${}^{-1}$. The results are \begin{align} \frac {\mathcal{B}(D^+\rightarrow K^-K^+K^+)} {\mathcal{B}(D^+\rightarrow K^-π^+π^+)}& = (6.541 \pm 0.025 \pm 0.042) \times 10^{-4},\nonumber \frac {\mathcal{B}(D^+\rightarrow π^-π^+K^+)} {\mathcal{B}(D^+\rightarrow K^-π^+π^+)}& = (5.231 \pm 0.009 \pm 0.023) \times 10^{-3}, \nonumber \frac {\mathcal{B}(D^+_s\rightarrowπ^-K^+K^+)} {\mathcal{B}(D^+_s\rightarrow K^-K^+π^+)}& = (2.372 \pm 0.024 \pm 0.025) \times 10^{-3},\nonumber \end{align} where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. These are the most precise measurements up to date.

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