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\title{\boldmath{ $D^{*-}_2(2460)$}\ \ \ \ \ \ \ $***$}
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The $D^{*-}_2(2460)$ is the charged charm member of the lightest tensor multiplet. The mass and width are taken from \cite{Yao:2006px}. The only observed decay modes are $D\pi$ and $D^*\pi$. The ratio of the branching ratios for these modes has been measured and for the same modes of the neutral tensor meson. We have therefore chosen to average these measurements, including the recent result from \cite{Abe:2003zm}  to obtain
\begin{equation}
\frac{\Gamma(D\pi)}{\Gamma(D^*\pi)}=2.05\pm 0.36,
\end{equation}
and only include these modes in order to obtain the branching ratios. This is similar to the approach in EvtGEN but does not include the $D^*\pi\pi$ or $D\eta$ modes which were included in FORTRAN HERWIG. The particle is allowed to be off-shell by up to ten times the width.
The $D^{*-}_2(2460)$ has mass $2459$~MeV and is unstable. The $D^{*-}_2(2460)$ has spin $2$, charge $-1$ and is colour neutral.
 The $D^{*-}_2(2460)$ is a meson and is from the $1^3P_2$ multiplet.The $D^{*-}_2(2460)$ has width $29$~MeV. The lower limit on the mass of the particle is $290$~MeV and the upper limit is $290$~MeV. These are the deviations from the on-shell value. The branching ratios are fixed.
The properties of the particle and its antiparticle are taken to be charge-conjugate to each other.
 The PDG code is -415.
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Branching & Rating & On/ & Outgoing  & Description & Decayer  \\ 
Ratio     &                                 & Off & Particles &             &         \\ 
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\caption{The decay modes of the $D^{*-}_2(2460)$ (continues).}
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\caption{The decay modes of the $D^{*-}_2(2460)$.}
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\label{tab:-415decaymodes}
0.448087 & $***$ & on & $ \bar{D}^0, \pi^- $  & The decay of the $D^{*-}_2(2460)$ to $D\pi$. The relative $D\pi$ and $D^*\pi$ branching ratios are determined as described above and the relative ratios for the two $D\pi$ modes using isospin.   & Herwig::TensorMeson2PScalar::Tensor2PScalar \\ 
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0.224044 & $***$ & on & $ D^-, \pi^0 $  & The decay of the $D^{*-}_2(2460)$ to $D\pi$. The relative $D\pi$ and $D^*\pi$ branching ratios are determined as described above and the relative ratios for the two $D\pi$ modes using isospin.   & Herwig::TensorMeson2PScalar::Tensor2PScalar \\ 
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0.218579 & $***$ & on & $ \bar{D}^{*0}(2007), \pi^- $  & The decay of the $D^{*-}_2(2460)$ to $D^*\pi$. The relative $D^*\pi$ and $D\pi$ branching ratios are determined as described above and the relative ratios for the two $D^*\pi$ modes using isospin.   & Herwig::TensorMesonVectorPScalar::TensorVP \\ 
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0.109290 & $***$ & on & $ D^{*-}(2010), \pi^0 $  & The decay of the $D^{*-}_2(2460)$ to $D^*\pi$. The relative $D^*\pi$ and $D\pi$ branching ratios are determined as described above and the relative ratios for the two $D^*\pi$ modes using isospin.   & Herwig::TensorMesonVectorPScalar::TensorVP \\ 
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\end{longtable}The $D^{*-}_2(2460)$ decay modes are given in Table~\ref{tab:-415decaymodes} and the total branching ratio is $1$.


The mass generator is \verb|D_2+mass| for the $D^{*-}_2(2460)$.
The width generator is \verb|D_2+width| for the $D^{*-}_2(2460)$.

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 The particle was checked by Peter Richardson at 21:31:46 on the 20th of October 2007. The most recently changed decay mode was modified at 15:13:45 on the 21st of July 2005. The particle data was last modified at 13:17:16 on the 15th of April 2007.

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