Observation of the Decay $D^0\rightarrow K^-\pi^+e^+e^-

• Published in: Physical review letters 2019, Vol.122 (8)
• Main Authors: Lees, J.P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, David Nathan, Kolomensky, Yu.G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Hearty, C., Mattison, T.S., Mckenna, J.A., So, R.Y., Blinov, V.E., Buzykaev, A.R., Druzhinin, V.P., Golubev, V.B., Kozyrev, E.A., Kravchenko, E.A., Onuchin, A.P., Serednyakov, S.I., Skovpen, Yu.I., Solodov, E.P., Todyshev, K.Yu, Lankford, A.J., Gary, J.W., Long, O., Eisner, A.M., Lockman, W.S., Panduro Vazquez, W., Chao, D.S., Cheng, C.H., Echenard, B., Flood, K.T., Hitlin, D.G., Kim, J., Li, Y., Miyashita, T.S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F.C., Röhrken, M., Huard, Z., Meadows, B.T., Pushpawela, B.G., Sokoloff, M.D., Sun, L., Smith, J.G., Wagner, S.R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Santoro, V., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Martellotti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I.M., Piccolo, M., Rotondo, M., Zallo, A., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Lacker, H.M., Bhuyan, B., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Prell, S., Gritsan, A.V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Le Diberder, F., Lutz, A.M., Wormser, G., Lange, D.J., Wright, D.M., Coleman, J.P., Hutchcroft, D.E., Payne, D.J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A.J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Cowan, G., Banerjee, Sw, Brown, David Norvil, Davis, C.L., Denig, A.G., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment; Physics
• ISSN: 0031-9007; 1079-7114
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.081802

We report the observation of the rare charm decay D0→K-π+e+e-, based on 468  fb-1 of e+e- annihilation data collected at or close to the center-of-mass energy of the ϒ(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. We find the branching fraction in the invariant mass range 0.675