First observation of D⁰⁽⁺⁾ → K̅ ω e⁺ νₑ decays and experimental evidence for the two-pole structure of K̅₁(1270)
The BESIII collaboration recently reported the first observation of the semileptonic decays D⁰ → K⁻ ω e⁺ νₑ and D⁺ → K_S⁰ ω e⁺ νₑ with significances of 8.0σ and 5.8σ, respectively. The measurement is based on 20.3 fb⁻¹ of e⁺ e⁻ annihilation data collected at a center-of-mass energy of 3.773 GeV. This work provides the most precise measurement of the branching fraction (BF) of K̅₁(1270) → K̅ ω decay from a collider experiment to date, and offers unique experimental evidence for the two-pole structure of the K̅₁(1270) resonance. The results have been published recently in Physical Review Letters on 26 August, 2026 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091802].