Search for Rare and Forbidden 3-body Di-muon Decays of the Charmed Mesons D+ and Ds+
arXiv:hep-ex/0306049 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.07.079
Abstract
Using a high statistics sample of photo-produced charm particles from the FOCUS experiment at Fermilab, we report results of a search for eight rare and Standard-Model-forbidden decays: D+, Ds+ > h+/- muon-/+ muon+ (with h=pion or Kaon). Improvement over previous results by a factor of 1.7--14 is realized. Our branching ratio upper limit D+ > pion+ muon- muon+ of 8.8E-6 at the 90% C.L. is below the current MSSM R-Parity violating constraint.
17 pages, 7 figure files