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Observation of , Test of Lepton Flavor Universality, and First Angular Analysis of
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 171801 – Published 21 October, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/w9vz-4fq9
Abstract
We report a study of the semileptonic decays (, ) based on of collision data collected at the center-of-mass energy of 3.773 GeV with the BESIII detector. The decay is observed for the first time, with a branching fraction of , and the branching fraction of is determined with the improved precision as . From the analysis of the dynamics, we observe that the dominant component is accompanied by an -wave contribution, which accounts for of the total decay rate of the channel and of the channel. Assuming a single-pole dominance parametrization, the hadronic form factor ratios are extracted to be and . Based on the first comprehensive angular and the decay-rate asymmetry analysis, the full set of averaged angular and asymmetry observables are measured as a function of the momentum-transfer squared; they are consistent with expectations from the standard model. No evidence for violation of lepton-flavor universality is observed in either the full range or the five chosen bins of momentum-transfer squared.
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