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Measurement of the D0→K−π+e+e− branching fraction and search for D0→π+π−e+e− and D0→K+K−e+e− decays at Belle

I. Adachi, L. Aggarwal, H. Ahmed, Y. Ahn, H. Aihara, N. Akopov, S. Alghamdi, M. Alhakami, A. Aloisio et al. (Belle and Belle II Collaborations)

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De Nardo, G. De Pietro, R. de Sangro, M. Destefanis, S. Dey, R. Dhamija, A. Di Canto, F. Di Capua, J. Dingfelder, Z. Doležal, I. Domínguez Jiménez, T. V. Dong, X. Dong, K. Dort, D. Dossett, S. Dubey, K. Dugic, G. Dujany, P. Ecker, M. Eliachevitch, D. Epifanov, R. Farkas, P. Feichtinger, T. Ferber, T. Fillinger, C. Finck, G. Finocchiaro, A. Fodor, F. Forti, A. Frey, B. G. Fulsom, A. Gabrielli, E. Ganiev, M. Garcia-Hernandez, R. Garg, G. Gaudino, V. Gaur, V. Gautam, A. Gellrich, G. Ghevondyan, D. Ghosh, H. Ghumaryan, G. Giakoustidis, R. Giordano, A. Giri, P. Gironella Gironell, A. Glazov, B. Gobbo, R. Godang, O. Gogota, P. Goldenzweig, E. Graziani, D. Greenwald, Z. Gruberová, T. Gu, Y. Guan, K. Gudkova, I. Haide, S. Halder, Y. Han, T. Hara, C. Harris, K. Hayasaka, H. Hayashii, S. Hazra, M. T. Hedges, A. Heidelbach, I. Heredia de la Cruz, M. Hernández Villanueva, T. Higuchi, M. Hoek, M. Hohmann, R. Hoppe, P. Horak, C.-L. Hsu, A. Huang, T. Humair, T. Iijima, K. Inami, G. Inguglia, N. Ipsita, A. Ishikawa, R. Itoh, M. Iwasaki, P. Jackson, D. Jacobi, W. W. Jacobs, E.-J. Jang, Q. P. Ji, S. Jia, Y. Jin, A. Johnson, K. K. Joo, H. Junkerkalefeld, A. B. Kaliyar, J. Kandra, K. H. Kang, S. Kang, G. Karyan, T. Kawasaki, F. Keil, C. Ketter, C. Kiesling, C.-H. Kim, D. Y. Kim, J.-Y. Kim, K.-H. Kim, Y. J. Kim, Y.-K. Kim, H. Kindo, K. Kinoshita, P. Kodyš, T. Koga, S. Kohani, K. Kojima, A. Korobov, S. Korpar, E. Kovalenko, R. Kowalewski, P. Križan, P. Krokovny, T. Kuhr, Y. Kulii, D. Kumar, J. Kumar, M. Kumar, R. Kumar, K. Kumara, T. Kunigo, A. Kuzmin, Y.-J. Kwon, S. Lacaprara, Y.-T. Lai, K. Lalwani, T. Lam, L. Lanceri, J. S. Lange, T. S. Lau, M. Laurenza, K. Lautenbach, R. Leboucher, F. R. Le Diberder, M. J. Lee, C. Lemettais, P. Leo, D. Levit, P. M. Lewis, C. Li, H.-J. Li, L. K. Li, Q. M. Li, S. X. Li, W. Z. Li, Y. Li, Y. B. Li, Y. P. Liao, J. Libby, J. Lin, S. Lin, Z. Liptak, M. H. Liu, Q. Y. Liu, Y. Liu, Z. Q. Liu, D. Liventsev, S. Longo, A. Lozar, T. Lueck, C. Lyu, Y. Ma, C. Madaan, M. Maggiora, S. P. Maharana, R. Maiti, S. Maity, G. Mancinelli, R. Manfredi, E. Manoni, M. Mantovano, D. Marcantonio, S. Marcello, C. Marinas, C. Martellini, A. Martens, A. Martini, T. Martinov, L. Massaccesi, M. Masuda, T. Matsuda, D. Matvienko, S. K. Maurya, M. Maushart, J. A. McKenna, R. Mehta, F. Meier, D. Meleshko, M. Merola, C. Miller, M. Mirra, S. Mitra, K. Miyabayashi, H. Miyake, R. Mizuk, G. B. Mohanty, S. Mondal, S. Moneta, H.-G. Moser, M. Mrvar, R. Mussa, I. Nakamura, M. Nakao, Y. Nakazawa, M. Naruki, Z. Natkaniec, A. Natochii, M. Nayak, G. Nazaryan, M. Neu, C. Niebuhr, M. Niiyama, S. Nishida, S. Ogawa, Y. Onishchuk, H. Ono, Y. Onuki, F. Otani, E. R. Oxford, P. Pakhlov, G. Pakhlova, E. Paoloni, S. Pardi, K. Parham, H. Park, J. Park, K. Park, S.-H. Park, B. Paschen, A. Passeri, S. Patra, S. Paul, T. K. Pedlar, I. Peruzzi, R. Peschke, R. Pestotnik, M. Piccolo, L. E. Piilonen, G. Pinna Angioni, P. L. M. Podesta-Lerma, T. Podobnik, S. Pokharel, A. Prakash, C. Praz, S. 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Tenchini, A. Thaller, O. Tittel, R. Tiwary, E. Torassa, K. Trabelsi, F. F. Trantou, I. Tsaklidis, M. Uchida, I. Ueda, T. Uglov, K. Unger, Y. Unno, K. Uno, S. Uno, P. Urquijo, Y. Ushiroda, S. E. Vahsen, R. van Tonder, M. Veronesi, A. Vinokurova, V. S. Vismaya, L. Vitale, V. Vobbilisetti, R. Volpe, A. Vossen, B. Wach, M. Wakai, S. Wallner, E. Wang, M.-Z. Wang, X. L. Wang, Z. Wang, A. Warburton, M. Watanabe, S. Watanuki, C. Wessel, E. Won, X. P. Xu, B. D. Yabsley, S. Yamada, W. Yan, W. C. Yan, S. B. Yang, J. Yelton, K. Yi, J. H. Yin, K. Yoshihara, J. Yuan, L. Zani, F. Zeng, M. Zeyrek, B. Zhang, V. Zhilich, J. S. Zhou, Q. D. Zhou, L. Zhu, V. I. Zhukova, and R. Žlebčík (Belle and Belle II Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. D 112, L071101 – Published 30 October, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/mkx8-cl23

Abstract

We present a study of the rare charm meson decays D0→K+K−e+e−, π+π−e+e−, and K−π+e+e− using a 942  fb−1 dataset collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e− collider. We identify D0 candidates via the charge of the pion from D*+→D0π+ decays and normalize the branching fractions to D0→K−π+π−π+ decays. The branching fraction for decay D0→K−π+e+e− is measured to be (39.6±4.5 (stat)±2.9 (syst))×10−7, with the dielectron mass in the ρ/ω mass region 675<mee<875  MeV/c2. We also search for D0→h−h(′)+e+e− (h(′)=K, π) decays with the dielectron mass near the η and ϕ resonances, and away from these resonances for the K+K−e+e− and π+π−e+e− modes. For these modes, we find no significant signals and set 90% confidence level upper limits on their branching fractions at the O(10−7) level.

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