First observation of the decay B0→D*+D*-

被引:11
作者
Artuso, M [1 ]
Dambasuren, E
Kopp, S
Moneti, GC
Mountain, R
Schuh, S
Skwarnicki, T
Stone, S
Titov, A
Viehhauser, G
Wang, JC
Csorna, SE
McLean, KW
Marka, S
Xu, Z
Godang, R
Kinoshita, K
Lai, IC
Pomianowski, P
Schrenk, S
Bonvicini, G
Cinabro, D
Greene, R
Perera, LP
Zhou, GJ
Chan, S
Eigen, G
Lipeles, E
Miller, JS
Schmidtler, H
Shapiro, A
Sun, WM
Urheim, J
Weinstein, AJ
Würthwein, F
Jaffe, DE
Masek, G
Paar, HP
Potter, EM
Prell, S
Sharma, V
Asner, DM
Eppich, A
Gronberg, J
Hill, TS
Korte, CM
Lange, DJ
Morrison, RJ
Nelson, HN
Nelson, TK
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[1] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[2] Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN 37235 USA
[3] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[4] Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI 48202 USA
[5] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[6] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[7] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[8] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[9] Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[10] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[11] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[12] Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[13] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[14] Carleton Univ, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[15] Inst Particle Phys, Victoria, BC, Canada
[16] McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[17] Ithaca Coll, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
[18] Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[19] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[20] SUNY Albany, Albany, NY 12222 USA
[21] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[22] Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA
[23] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[24] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[25] Stanford Univ, Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr, Stanford, CA 94309 USA
[26] So Methodist Univ, Dallas, TX 75275 USA
[27] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[28] Univ Texas, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[29] Yonsei Univ, Seoul 120749, South Korea
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3020
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We have observed four fully reconstructed B-0 --> D*+D*- candidates in 5.8 x 10(6) Y(4S) --> B (B) over bar decays recorded with the CLEO detector. The background is estimated to be 0.31 +/- 0.10 events. The probability that the background could produce four or more signal candidates with the observed distribution among D*+ and D*- decay modes is 1.1 x 10(-4). The measured decay rate, B(B-0 --> D*+D*-) = [6.2(-2.9)(+4.0)(stat) +/- 1.0(syst)] x 10(-4), is large enough for this decay mode to be of interest for the measurement of a time-dependent CP asymmetry. [S0031-9007(99)08881-X].
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页码:3020 / 3024
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