Ablikim, M.Achasov, M. N.Adlarson, P.Aliberti, R.Amoroso, A.An, M. R.Çetin, Serkant Ali2024-05-192024-05-1920230370-26931873-2445https://doi.org10.1016/j.physletb.2023.1382450370-2693https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12713/4884The spin and parity of the charmed mesons Ds*+, D*0 and D*+ are determined for the first time to be JP = 1- with significances greater than 10 sigma over other hypotheses of 2+ and 3-, using an e+e- collision data sample with an integrated luminosity of 3.19 fb-1 collected by the BESIII detector at a center-of-mass energy of 4.178 GeV. Different spin-parity hypotheses are tested via a helicity amplitude analysis of the processes e+e--> D*+ s Ds -, D*0D0 and D*+D-, with D*+ s -> Ds+ gamma, D*0 -> D0 pi 0, and D*+-> D+pi 0. The results confirm the quark model predictions. (c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons .org /licenses /by /4 .0/). Funded by SCOAP3.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessCharmed MesonSpin And ParityBesiiiArticle846WOS:001124362000001N/A10.1016/j.physletb.2023.1382450370-2693