Dₛ Inclusive Decays

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The availability of branching fractions for a large majority of Dₛ decays permits the prediction of inclusive branching fractions. This is achieved with the help of a modest amount of input from an isospin statistical model applied to non-resonant multibody Dₛ decays. A systematic uncertainty in these mostly small branching ratios is estimated by comparing predictions of this model with those of a model involving quark-antiquark pair production. The calculated inclusive branching fractions can be compared with data (for example, from a large sample of Dₛ+ Dₛ*⁻ + Dₛ*⁺ Dₛ- obtained by the CLEO Collaboration) and examined for specific final states which can shed light on strong and weak decay mechanisms.