Direct Measurement of the Branching Fraction for the Decay of $D^+ \to \bar K^0 e^+\nu_e$ and Determination of $\Gamma (D^0 \to K^-e^+\nu_e)/ \Gamma (D^+ \to \bar K^0 e^+\nu_e)$

Abstract

The absolute branching fraction for the decay $D^+ \to \bar K^0 e^+\nu_e$ is determined using $5321\pm 149 \pm 160$ singly tagged $D^-$ sample from the data collected around 3.773 GeV with the BES-II detector at the BEPC collider. In the system recoiling against the singly tagged $D^-$ meson, $34.4\pm 6.1$ events for $D^+ \to \bar K^0 e ^+\nu_e$ is observed. Those yield the absolute branching fraction to be $BF(D^+ \to \bar K^0 e^+\nu_e)=(8.95 \pm 1.59\pm 0.67)%$. The ratio of the two partial widths for the decays of $D^0 \to K^-e^+\nu_e$ and $D^+ \to \bar K^0 e ^+\nu_e$ is determined to be $ \Gamma (D^0 \to K^-e^+\nu_e)/ \Gamma (D^+ \to \bar K^0 e^+\nu_e) = 1.08\pm 0.22 \pm 0.07$.