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Search for Rare and Forbidden 3-body Di-muon Decays of the Charmed Mesons D+ and Ds+
Using a high statistics sample of photo-produced charm particles from the
FOCUS experiment at Fermilab, we report results of a search for eight rare and
Standard-Model-forbidden decays: D+, Ds+ > h+/- muon-/+ muon+ (with h=pion or
Kaon). Improvement over previous results by a factor of 1.7--14 is realized.
Our branching ratio upper limit D+ > pion+ muon- muon+ of 8.8E-6 at the 90%
C.L. is below the current MSSM R-Parity violating constraint.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figure file