Nonleptonic weak decays of charmed mesons

Abstract

A previous analysis of two-body Cabibbo allowed nonleptonic decays of $D^0$ mesons and of Cabibbo allowed and first-forbidden decays of $D^{+}$ and $D_s^{+}$ has been adjourned using more recent experimental data and extended to the Cabibbo forbidden decays of $D^0$. Annihilation and W-exchange contributions as well as final state interaction effects (assumed to be dominated by nearby resonances) have been included and are in fact crucial to obtain a reasonable agreement with the experimental data, which show large flavour SU(3) violations. New fitting parameters are necessary to describe rescattering effects for Cabibbo forbidden $D^0$ decays, given the lack of experimental informations on isoscalar resonances. We keep their number to a minimum - three - using phenomenologically based considerations. We also discuss CP violating asymmetries.

24 pages, plain TeX, uses harvmac.tex and tables.tex