Measurements of the branching fractions of the inclusive decays $D^{0}(D^{+})\to π^+π^+π^-X$

Abstract

Using $e^+e^-$ annihilation data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.93 fb$^{-1}$ taken at a center-of-mass energy of 3.773 GeV with the BESIII detector, we report the first measurements of the branching fractions of the inclusive decays $D^0\to π^+π^+π^-X$ and $D^+\to π^+π^+π^-X$, where pions from $K^0_S$ decays have been excluded from the $π^+π^+π^-$ system and $X$ denotes any possible particle combination. The branching fractions of $D^0(D^+)\to π^+π^+π^-X$ are determined to be ${\mathcal B}(D^0\to π^+π^+π^-X)=(17.60\pm0.11\pm0.22)\%$ and ${\mathcal B}(D^+\to π^+π^+π^-X)=(15.25\pm0.09\pm0.18)\%$, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second systematic.

14 pages, 4 figures