Measurement of the $F$ -Meson Lifetime

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28 April 1986

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 56 (17) , 1775-1778
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.56.1775

Abstract

The lifetime of the

F^{\pm}

meson has been measured to be (

{3.5}_{- 1.8}^{+ 2.4}

±0.9) ×

10^{- 13}

s by means of the

F^{\pm} \to {φ π}^{\pm}

decay mode. The measurement was made with the High Resolution Spectrometer at the SLAC

e^{+} e^{-}

storage ring PEP at a center-of-mass energy of 29 GeV.

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