Title: | Measurement of the branching fraction and CP content for the decay B(0) -> D(*+)D(*-) |
Authors: | Aubert, B Boutigny, D Gaillard, JM Hicheur, A Karyotakis, Y Lees, JP Robbe, P Tisserand, V Zghiche, A Palano, A Pompili, A Penny, RC Hitlin, DG Schwiening, J Snyder, A Soha, A Paolucci, P Spanier, SM Stelzer, J Zallo, A Roe, NA Vasseur, G Lu, A Su, D Sullivan, MK Tanaka, HA Va'vra, J Wagner, SR Metzler, S Piccolo, D Watson, AT Weaver, M Wenzel, WA Nash, JA Weinstein, AJR Wisniewski, WJ Vidal, PB Bagnasco, S Wright, DH Young, CC Burchat, PR Cheng, CH Sciacca, C Yeche, C Meyer, TI Summers, DJ Roat, C Oyang, J Henderson, R Watson, NK Cowan, G Bugg, W Buzzo, A Cohn, H Zito, M Izen, JM Grothe, M Schmitz, RE Kitayama, I Lou, XC Bianchi, F Bona, M Gamba, D Porter, FC George, S Purohit, MV Bosisio, L Della Ricca, G Contri, R Neri, N LoSecco, JM Deppermann, T Dittongo, S Lanceri, L Poropat, P Vuagnin, G Dixon, P Panvini, RS Brown, CM Green, MG Jackson, PD Paoloni, E Ryd, A Alsmiller, JRG Kowalewski, R Sharma, V Roney, JM Singh, H Band, HR Goetzen, K Charles, E Dasu, S Datta, M Rama, M Kurup, A Eichenbaum, AM Aspinwall, ML Hu, H Weidemann, AW Johnson, JR Samuel, A Crosetti, G Liu, R Di Lodovico, F Pan, Y Rizzo, G Prepost, R Koch, H Marker, CE Wilson, MG Abrams, GS Scott, IJ Sekula, SJ von Wimmersperg-Toeller, JH Wu, SL Yu, Z Breon, AB Sandrelli, F Yang, S Kordich, TMB De Nardo, G Neal, H BABAR Collaboration Gabriel, TA McMahon, TR Kunze, M Lewandowski, B Peters, K Schmuecker, H Simi, G Steinke, M Carpinelli, M Barlow, NR Lo Vetere, M Bhimji, W Zhu, RY Brau, J Chevalier, N Ricciardi, S Clark, PJ Cottingham, WN Anulli, F Borgland, AW Foster, B Mackay, C Wilson, FF Abe, K Hearty, C Macri, M LeClerc, C Mattison, TS McKenna, JA Jacobsen, RG Yumiceva, FX Triggiani, G Devmal, S Thiessen, D Jolly, S McKemey, AK Blinov, VE Bukin, AD Bukin, DA Frey, R Buzykaev, AR Adam, I Monge, MR Walsh, J Golubev, VB Bernet, R Ivanchenko, VN Korol, AA Jayatilleke, S Kravchenko, EA Onuchin, AP Serednyakov, SI Aston, D Grauges, E Skovpen, YI Hast, C Telnov, VI Yushkov, AN Passaggio, S Salvatore, F Best, D Chao, M Kirkby, D Berger, N Lankford, AJ Rong, G Iwasaki, M Long, O Mandelkern, M McMahon, S Stoker, DP Arisaka, K Buchanan, C Chen, GP Boyarski, AM Pastore, FC Chun, S MacFarlane, DB Prell, S Haire, M Sinev, NB Mancinelli, G Meadows, BT Sokoloff, MD Barillari, T Harrison, TJ Bloom, P Ford, WT Vaitsas, G Nauenberg, U Patrignani, C Judd, D Olivas, A Strom, D Rankin, P Roy, J Harrison, PF Wang, P Smith, JG van Hoek, WC Zhang, L Blouw, J Brown, D Schumm, BA Harton, JL Krishnamurthy, M Heusch, CA Calderini, G Robutti, E Soffer, A Toki, WH Wilson, RJ Zhang, J Zhu, YS Brandt, T Romosan, A Brose, J Davis, CL Convery, MR Colberg, T Bowerman, DA Dickopp, M Dubitzky, RS Santroni, A Hauke, A Maly, E Muller-Pfefferkorn, R Paick, K Otto, S Forti, F Schubert, KR Eigen, G Allison, J Colecchia, F Schwierz, R Spaan, B Wilden, L Bernard, D Campagnari, C Turnbull, L Tinslay, J Bonneaud, GR Brochard, F Cohen-Tanugi, J Ferrag, S T'Jampens, S Rahatlou, S Barlow, RJ Thiebaux, C Stugu, B Vasileiadis, G Coupal, DP Wagoner, DE Tosi, S Morii, M Brown, DN Bartoldus, R Hamilton, R Mallik, U Dal Corso, F Cochran, J Boyd, JT Dong, D Crawley, HB Albert, J Fischer, PA Lamsa, J Dahmes, B Meyer, WT Rosenberg, EI Yi, J Button-Shafer, J Dorigo, A Finocchiaro, G Grosdidier, G Hocker, A Baldini-Ferroli, R Forti, AC Lacker, HM Laplace, S Le Diberder, F Lepeltier, V Hart, PA Lutz, AM Chen, E Plaszczynski, S Galeazzi, F Schune, MH Nief, JY Trincaz-Duvoid, S Cahn, RN Jackson, F Wormser, G Bionta, RM Brigljevic, V Dorfan, J Lange, D Mugge, M Kuznetsova, N Margoni, M Lu, C van Bibber, K Wright, DM Bevan, AJ Fry, JR Khan, A Dunwoodie, W Gabathuler, E Gill, MS Gamet, R George, M Kay, M Verderi, M Levi, ME Payne, DJ Levy, SL Sloane, RJ Field, RC Lafferty, GD Kadel, RW Mazur, MA Savvas, N Weatherall, JH Williams, JC Miftakov, V Farbin, A Michelon, G Jawahery, A Glanzman, T Lillard, V Olsen, J Lavin, D Roberts, DA Schieck, JR Blaylock, G Richman, JD Schaffner, SF Kadyk, J Dallapiccola, C Potter, RJL Morandin, M Flood, K Hertzbach, SS Kofler, R Koptchev, VB Muheim, F Moore, TB Staengle, H Smith, AJS Willocq, S Giorgi, MA Brau, B Verkerke, W Posocco, M Cowan, R Kerth, LT Sciolla, G Taylor, F Yamamoto, RK Playfer, S Tumanov, A Gowdy, S Milek, M Patel, PM Palombo, F Bauer, JM Dauncey, PD Cremaldi, L Beringer, J Eschenburg, V Kroeger, R Kolomensky, YG Touramanis, C Seiden, A Reidy, J Swain, JE Sanders, DA Rotondo, M Lockman, WS Falbo, M Simonetto, F Stroili, R Torassa, E Haas, T Voci, C Varnes, EW Benayoun, M Briand, H Lynch, G Egede, U Chauveau, J David, P de Vaissiere, C Borean, C Hawkes, CM Pulliam, T Del Buono, L Ronan, MT Hamon, O Leruste, P Ocariz, J Pivk, M Gritsan, AV Roos, L Stark, J Halyo, V Oddone, PJ Manfredi, PF Bozzi, C Cavoto, G Re, V Schalk, T Speziali, V Frank, ED Gladney, L Eschrich, I Himel, T Guo, QH Panetta, J Angelini, C Batignani, G Taras, P Bettarini, S Piemontese, L Pripstein, M Bondioli, M Chen, JC Patteri, P Bucci, F Morton, GW Campagna, E del Re, D Calcaterra, A Sanders, P Faccini, R Ferrarotto, F Ferroni, F Mazzoni, MA Hryn'ova, T Morganti, S Piredda, G Turri, M Nicholson, H Serra, M Voena, C Shelkov, VG Smith, D de Sangro, R Christ, S Dubois-Felsmann, GP Waldi, R Adye, T De Groot, N Franek, B Eisner, AM Geddes, NI Gopal, GP Walkowiak, W Xella, SM Back, JJ Huffer, ME Aleksan, R Falciai, D Emery, S Telnov, AV Gaidot, A Cartaro, C Ganzhur, SF Giraud, PF Monchenault, GH Kozanecki, W Lusiani, A Langer, M Bellodi, G Williams, DC London, GW Raven, G Mayer, B Cavallo, N Serfass, B Innes, WR Groysman, Y Kral, JF Jessop, C Kelsey, MH Kim, P Kocian, ML Langenegger, U Knowles, DJ Peruzzi, IM Marchiori, G Leith, DWGS Luitz, S Dvoretskii, A Fabozzi, F Shorthouse, HW Luth, V Lynch, HL Marsiske, H Menke, S Messner, R Treadwell, E Muller, DR O'Grady, CP Piccolo, M Ozcan, VE Gatto, C O'Neale, SW Strother, P Perazzo, A Qi, ND Perl, M Martinez-Vidal, F Petrak, S Quinn, H Ratcliff, BN Robertson, SH Roodman, A Lista, L Xie, Y Salnikov, AA Anjomshoaa, A Schietinger, T Morganti, M Schindler, RH |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Citation: | Physical Review Letters, 89(6): Artn 061801, Aug 2002 |
Abstract: | We report a measurement of the branching fraction of the decay B0→D*+D*- and of the CP-odd component of its final state using the BABAR detector. With data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.4 fb-1 collected at the Υ(4S) resonance during 1999–2000, we have reconstructed 38 candidate signal events in the mode B0→D*+D*- with an estimated background of 6.2±0.5 events. From these events, we determine the branching fraction to be B(B0→D*+D*-)=[8.3±1.6(stat)±1.2(syst)]×10-4. The measured CP-odd fraction of the final state is 0.22±0.18(stat)±0.03(syst). |
Description: | This is the pre-print version of the Article. The official published version can be accessed from the links below. Copyright @ 2002 APS. |
URI: | http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v89/i6/e061801 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7523 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.061801 |
ISSN: | 0031-9007 |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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