Measurement of the branching fractions for the exclusive decays of B0 and B+ to (D)over-bar(*) D(*)K -: art. no. 092001

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Aubert, B [1 ]
Barate, R
Boutigny, D
Gaillard, JM
Hicheur, A
Karyotakis, Y
Lees, JP
Robbe, P
Tisserand, V
Zghiche, A
Palano, A
Pompili, A
Chen, JC
Qi, ND
Rong, G
Wang, P
Zhu, YS
Eigen, G
Ofte, I
Stugu, B
Abrams, GS
Borgland, AW
Breon, AB
Brown, DN
Button-Shafer, J
Cahn, RN
Charles, E
Day, CT
Gill, MS
Gritsan, AV
Groysman, Y
Jacobsen, RG
Kadel, RW
Kadyk, J
Kerth, LT
Kolomensky, YG
Kral, JF
Kukartsev, G
LeClerc, C
Levi, ME
Lynch, G
Mir, LM
Oddone, PJ
Orimoto, TJ
Pripstein, M
Roe, NA
Romosan, A
Ronan, MT
Shelkov, VG
Telnov, AV
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[1] Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[2] Univ Bari, Dipartimento Fis, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[3] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[4] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[5] Univ Bergen, Inst Phys, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
[6] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[7] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[8] Ruhr Univ Bochum, Inst Expt Phys 1, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
[9] Univ Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, Avon, England
[10] Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[11] Brunel Univ, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middx, England
[12] Budker Inst Nucl Phys, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
[13] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[14] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[15] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[16] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[17] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Inst Particle Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[18] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[19] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[20] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[21] Colorado State Univ, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
[22] Tech Univ Dresden, Inst Kern & Teilchenphys, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
[23] Ecole Polytech, LLR, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[24] Univ Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Midlothian, Scotland
[25] Univ Ferrara, Dipartimento Fis, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[26] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[27] Florida A&M Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32307 USA
[28] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[29] Univ Genoa, Dipartimento Fis, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[30] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[31] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[32] Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
[33] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[34] Lab Accelerateur Lineaire, F-91898 Orsay, France
[35] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[36] Univ Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, Merseyside, England
[37] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, London SW7 2BW, England
[38] Univ London, Queen Mary, London E1 4NS, England
[39] Univ London Royal Holloway & Bedford New Coll, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, England
[40] Univ Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292 USA
[41] Univ Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[42] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[43] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[44] MIT, Nucl Sci Lab, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[45] McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[46] Univ Milan, Dipartimento Fis, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[47] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[48] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
[49] Univ Montreal, Lab Rene JA Levesque, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
[50] Mt Holyoke Coll, S Hadley, MA 01075 USA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2003年 / 68卷 / 09期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.68.092001
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P1 [天文学];
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摘要
We report the observation of 823+/-57 B-0 and 970+/-65 B+ decays to doubly charmed final states (D) over bar (()*D-)(()*K-), where (D) over bar (()*()) and D-(*()) are fully reconstructed and K is either a K+/- or a K-0. We use a sample of 82.3+/-0.9 million B (B) over bar events collected between 1999 and 2002 with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II storage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The 22 possible B decays to (D) over bar (()*D-)(()*K-) are reconstructed exclusively and the corresponding branching fractions or limits are determined. The branching fractions of the B-0 and of the B+ to (D) over bar (()*D-)(()*K-) are found to be B(B-0-->(D) over bar (()*D-)(()*K-))=[4.3+/-0.3(stat)+/-0.6(syst)]%, B(B+-->(D) over bar (()*D-)(()*K-))=[3.5+/-0.3(stat)+/-0.5(syst)]%. A search for decays to orbitally excited D-s states, B-->(D) over bar (()*D-)(sJ)+ (D-sJ(+)-->D-(*K-)0(+)), is also performed. No statistically significant contributions from D-s1(+)(2536)-->(DK+)-K-*0 and D-sJ(+)(2573)-->(DK+)-K-0 to the (D) over bar (()*D-)(()*K-)0(+) final state are found and we set 90% C.L. limits on their production rates.
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