A combined study of hadronic $D^+\to K^-\pi^+\pi^+$ and $D_s^+\to K^+K^+\pi^-$ decays by means of the analysis of semileptonic $D^+\to K^-\pi^+ \ell^+\nu_\ell$ decays

TL;DR

This paper develops amplitude parametrizations for specific D meson decays based on semileptonic decay analysis, highlighting the role of final state interactions and factorization assumptions, with implications for future experimental studies.

Contribution

It introduces new amplitude parametrizations for hadronic D decays using semileptonic decay data, emphasizing the role of form factors and final state interactions within a factorization framework.

Findings

P-wave contributions fit well with naive factorization.

S-wave contributions suggest non-factorizable effects.

Good overall agreement with experimental data.

Abstract

We perform a combined study of the two hadronic decays $D^+\to K^-\pi^+\pi^+$ and $D_s^+\to K^+K^+\pi^-$ using a detailed analysis of the semileptonic decays $D^+\to K^-\pi^+ \ell^+\nu_\ell$ ($\ell=e, \mu$) thanks to the high-statistics dataset provided by the BESIII Collaboration. We propose simple and suitable amplitude parametrizations of the studied reactions that shall be of interest to experimentalists for upcoming analyses. These new parametrizations are based on the na\"ive factorization hypothesis and the description of the resulting matrix elements in terms of well-known hadronic form factors, with special emphasis on the $K\pi$ scalar and vector cases. Such form factors account for two-body final state interactions which fulfill analyticity, unitarity and chiral symmetry constraints. As a result of our study, we find that the $P$-wave contribution fits nicely within the na\"ive-factorization approach, whereas the $S$-wave contribution requires complex Wilson coefficients that hint for possibly genuine three-body non-factorizable effects. Our hypothesis is further supported by the examination of $D_s^+\to K^+K^+\pi^-$ decays, where we achieve a description in overall good agreement with data.