Possibility of the experimental study on semi-leptonic and non-leptonic $D^*_{(s)}$ weak decays

Abstract

Just like other heavy flavor mesons, the weak decays of $D^*_{(s)}$ mesons can also provide a platform to check the Standard Model (SM), explore new physics (NP) and understand the mechanisms of weak interactions. At present, the theoretical and experimental researches on $D^*_{(s)}$ mesons are relatively limited. In addition to the dominant electromagnetic decays, the $D^*_{(s)}$ weak decays should also be feasible to explore the $D^*_{(s)}$ mesons. In this paper, we use the covariant light-front quark model (CLFQM) to study the branching ratios of the semi-leptonic decays $D^*_{(s)}\to P\ell^{+}\nu_{\ell}$ and the non-leptonic decays $D^*_{(s)}\to PP, PV$ with $P=\pi, K, \eta^{(\prime)}, V=\rho, K^*, \phi$ and $\ell=e, \mu$, which are within the range $10^{-13}\sim 10^{-6}$. Among these decays, the channels $D_{s}^{*+}\to\eta \ell^{+}\nu_{\ell}$ and $D^{*+}_{s}\to \eta\rho^{+}$ possess the largest branching ratios, which can reach up to $10^{-6}$ order. These decays are most likely to be accessible at the future high-luminosity experiments. One can find that the branching ratios $\mathcal{B}r(D_{s}^{*+}\to\eta \ell^{+}\nu_{\ell})=1.46\times10^{-6}$ and $\mathcal{B}r(D_{s}^{*+}\to\eta \rho^{+})=1.04\times10^{-6}$ correspond to tens of thousands of events in the $e^+e^-$ collider experiments, such as the STCF, CEPC and FCC-ee, and tens of millions of events at the HL-LHC. In a word, it is feasible to study the $D^*_{(s)}$ meson weak decays in the future experiments. Furthermore, we also predict and discuss another two physical observations, that is, the longitudinal polarization fraction $f_{L}$ and the forward-backward asymmetry $A_{FB}$, for our considered decays.