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Final States in Charmed Particle Decays

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Deeper Pathways in High-Energy Physics

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It is shown how weak decays of charmed particles provide information on the isospin of the charm-changing weak interactions, multi-particle production, enhancement of nonleptonic weak interactions, unseen decay modes of known charmed particles and best ways in which to discover new ones, and possible new weak currents and new fermions.

Work supported in part by ERDA under Contracts No. E(11-1)-1764 and E(11-1)-2220. On leave during 1976–7 from School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

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Rosner, J.L. (1977). Final States in Charmed Particle Decays. In: Perlmutter, A., Scott, L.F. (eds) Deeper Pathways in High-Energy Physics. Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1565-1_20

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