Inclusive decays B->DX and B->D*X

被引:33
作者
Gibbons, L
Johnson, SD
Kwon, Y
Roberts, S
Thorndike, EH
Jessop, CP
Lingel, K
Marsiske, H
Perl, ML
Schaffner, SF
Ugolini, D
Wang, R
Zhou, X
Coan, TE
Fadeyev, V
Korolkov, I
Maravin, Y
Narsky, I
Shelkov, V
Staeck, J
Stroynowski, R
Volobouev, I
Ye, J
Artuso, M
Efimov, A
Frasconi, F
Gao, M
Goldberg, M
He, D
Kopp, S
Horwitz, N
Moneti, GC
Mountain, R
Mukhin, Y
Schuh, S
Skwarnicki, T
Stone, S
Thulasidas, M
Viehhauser, G
Xing, X
Bartelt, J
Csorna, SE
Jain, V
Marka, S
Freyberger, A
Godang, R
Kinoshita, K
Lai, IC
Pomianowski, P
Schrenk, S
机构
[1] STANFORD UNIV, STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CTR, STANFORD, CA 94309 USA
[2] SO METHODIST UNIV, DALLAS, TX 75275 USA
[3] SYRACUSE UNIV, SYRACUSE, NY 13244 USA
[4] VANDERBILT UNIV, NASHVILLE, TN 37235 USA
[5] VIRGINIA POLYTECH INST & STATE UNIV, BLACKSBURG, VA 24061 USA
[6] WAYNE STATE UNIV, DETROIT, MI 48202 USA
[7] CALTECH, PASADENA, CA 91125 USA
[8] UNIV CALIF SAN DIEGO, LA JOLLA, CA 92093 USA
[9] UNIV CALIF SANTA BARBARA, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106 USA
[10] UNIV COLORADO, BOULDER, CO 80309 USA
[11] CORNELL UNIV, ITHACA, NY 14853 USA
[12] UNIV FLORIDA, GAINESVILLE, FL 32611 USA
[13] HARVARD UNIV, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138 USA
[14] UNIV HAWAII MANOA, HONOLULU, HI 96822 USA
[15] UNIV ILLINOIS, CHAMPAIGN, IL 61801 USA
[16] CARLETON UNIV, OTTAWA, ON K1S 5B6, CANADA
[17] INST PARTICLE PHYS, OTTAWA, ON K1S 5B6, CANADA
[18] MCGILL UNIV, MONTREAL, PQ H3A 2T8, CANADA
[19] MCGILL UNIV, MONTREAL, PQ H3A 2T8, CANADA
[20] ITHACA COLL, ITHACA, NY 14850 USA
[21] UNIV KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KS 66045 USA
[22] UNIV MINNESOTA, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55455 USA
[23] SUNY ALBANY, ALBANY, NY 12222 USA
[24] OHIO STATE UNIV, COLUMBUS, OH 43210 USA
[25] UNIV OKLAHOMA, NORMAN, OK 73019 USA
[26] PURDUE UNIV, W LAFAYETTE, IN 47907 USA
[27] FAC SCI, CPPM, MARSEILLE, FRANCE
[28] UNIV TEXAS, AUSTIN, TX 78712 USA
[29] BINP, RU-630090 NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA
[30] LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATL LAB, LIVERMORE, CA 94551 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevD.56.3783
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P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We report new measurements of the differential and total branching ratios for inclusive B decay to D-0, D+, and D*+ and the first measurement of the same quantities for inclusive B decay to D-*0. Here B is the mixture of B-d and B-u from Y(4S) decay. Furthermore, since more than one charm particle (or antiparticle) of the same kind can be produced in B decay, here ''inclusive B branching ratio'' is used to mean the average number of charm particles and their antiparticles of a certain species: produced in B decay. We obtain the following results (the first error is statistical, the second systematic of this analysis, the third propagated from other measurements): B(B --> (DX)-X-0) = (0.636 +/- 0.014 +/- 0.019 +/- 0.018), B(B --> D+X) = (0.0235 +/- 0.009 +/- 0.009 +/- 0.024), B(B --> (DX)-X-*0) = (0.247 +/- 0.012 +/- 0.018 +/- 0.018). B(B --> D*+X)= (0.239 +/- 0.011 +/- 0.014 +/- 0.009). The following ratio of branching ratios is not affected by most of:the systematic B(B --> (DX)-X-*0)/B(B --> D*+X) = (1.03 +/- 0.07 +/- 0.09 +/- 0.08). We also report the first measurement momentum-dependent D-*0 polarization and a new measurement of the D*+ polarization in inclusive B decay. Using these measurements and other CLEO results and making some additional assumptions, we calculate the average number of c and (c) over bar quarks produced in B decay to be [n(c)] = 1.10 +/- 0.05.
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页码:3783 / 3802
页数:20
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