@article{96191c7588584b20b3b9afdeaec0a58a,
title = "Observation of the electromagnetic Dalitz decay D∗0 →d0e+e-",
abstract = "Based on 3.19 fb-1 of e+e- collision data accumulated at the center-of-mass energy 4.178 GeV with the BESIII detector operating at the BEPCII collider, the electromagnetic Dalitz decay D∗0→D0e+e- is observed for the first time with a statistical significance of 13.2σ. The ratio of the branching fraction of D∗0→D0e+e- to that of D∗0→D0γ is measured to be (11.08±0.76±0.49)×10-3. By using the world average value of the branching fraction of D∗0→D0γ, the branching fraction of D∗0→D0e+e- is determined to be (3.91±0.27±0.17±0.10)×10-3, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic and the third is from external input of the branching fraction for D∗0→D0γ. ",
author = "{BESIII Collaboration} and M. Ablikim and Achasov, {M. N.} and P. Adlarson and S. Ahmed and M. Albrecht and R. Aliberti and A. Amoroso and An, {M. R.} and Q. An and Bai, {X. H.} and Y. Bai and O. Bakina and {Baldini Ferroli}, R. and I. Balossino and Y. Ban and K. Begzsuren and N. Berger and M. Bertani and D. Bettoni and F. Bianchi and J. Bloms and A. Bortone and I. Boyko and Briere, {R. A.} and H. Cai and X. Cai and A. Calcaterra and Cao, {G. F.} and N. Cao and Cetin, {S. A.} and Chang, {J. F.} and Chang, {W. L.} and G. Chelkov and Chen, {D. Y.} and G. Chen and Chen, {H. S.} and Chen, {M. L.} and Chen, {S. J.} and Chen, {X. R.} and Chen, {Y. B.} and Chen, {Z. J.} and Cheng, {W. S.} and G. Cibinetto and F. Cossio and Cui, {X. F.} and Dai, {H. L.} and Dai, {X. C.} and A. Dbeyssi and Muchnoi, {N. Yu} and Nikolaev, {I. B.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Jia-Jun Wu for useful discussions. The BESIII collaboration thanks the staff of BEPCII and the IHEP computing center for their strong support. This work is supported in part by National Key Research and Development Program of China under Contracts No. 2020YFA0406400, No. 2020YFA0406300; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Contracts No. 11875115, No. 11625523, No. 11635010, No. 11735014, No. 11822506, No. 11835012, No. 11935015, No. 11935016, No. 11935018, No. 11961141012, No. 12005311; The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Sun Yat-sen University; The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Large-Scale Scientific Facility Program; Joint Large-Scale Scientific Facility Funds of the NSFC and CAS under Contracts No. U1732263, No. U1832207, No. U2032110; CAS Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences under Contracts No. QYZDJ-SSW-SLH003, No. QYZDJ-SSW-SLH040; 100 Talents Program of CAS; INPAC and Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology; ERC under Contract No. 758462; European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Contract No. Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 894790; German Research Foundation DFG under Contracts Nos. 443159800, Collaborative Research Center CRC 1044, FOR 2359, FOR 2359, GRK 214; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; Ministry of Development of Turkey under Contract No. DPT2006K-120470; National Science and Technology fund; Olle Engkvist Foundation under Contract No. 200-0605; STFC (United Kingdom); The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (Sweden) under Contract No. 2016.0157; The Royal Society, UK under Contracts No. DH140054, No. DH160214; The Swedish Research Council; U.S. Department of Energy under Contracts No. DE-FG02-05ER41374, No. DE-SC-001206. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the {"}https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/{"}Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.",
year = "2021",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.104.112012",
language = "English",
volume = "104",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "AMER PHYSICAL SOC",
number = "11",
}