Title: | Measurement of D-s(+) and D-s(*+) production in B meson decays and from continuum e(+)e(-) annihilation at √s=10.6 GeV |
Authors: | Aubert, B Boutigny, D Gaillard, JM Hicheur, A Karyotakis, Y Lees, JP Robbe, P Tisserand, V Palano, A Pompili, A Chen, GP Turnbull, L Telnov, AV Wagoner, DE Albert, J Elmer, P Laplace, S Lu, C McDonald, KT Lockman, WS Weatherall, JH Sinev, NB Breon, AB Miftakov, V Schaffner, SF Smith, AJS Tumanov, A Varnes, EW Wenzel, WA Lepeltier, V Cavoto, G del Re, D Strom, D Yeche, C Faccini, R Ferrarotto, F Schubert, KR Pulliam, T Ferroni, F Lamanna, E Leonardi, E Mazzoni, MA Lutz, AM Colecchia, F Morganti, S Hamilton, R Piredda, G Bright-Thomas, PG Tehrani, FS Serra, M Schwierz, R Voena, C Sadrozinski, H Christ, S Dal Corso, F Waldi, R Groysman, Y Kral, JF Adye, T De Groot, N Franek, B Geddes, NI Gopal, GP Harrison, TJ Spaan, B Dorigo, A Xella, SM Copty, N Schalk, T Farbin, A Plaszczynski, S Purohit, MV Singh, H Yumiceva, FX Adam, I Anthony, PL Dickopp, M Aston, D Baird, K Wilden, L Berger, N Jawahery, A Hawkes, CM Schune, MH Bloom, E Rong, G Boyarski, AM Galeazzi, F Bulos, F Calderini, G Convery, MR Coupal, DP Coward, DH Lillard, V Bernard, D Dorfan, J de Monchenault, GH Dunwoodie, W Margoni, M Field, RC Knowles, DJ Schmitz, RE Glanzman, T Godfrey, GL Gowdy, S Olsen, J Grosso, P Haas, T Bonneaud, GR Pripstein, M Dahmes, B Himel, T Hryn'ova, T Huffer, ME Innes, WR Jessop, C Schumm, BA Roberts, DA O'Neale, SW Kelsey, MH Rosenberg, EI Kim, P Kocian, ML Trincaz-Duvoid, S Brochard, F Langenegger, U Leith, DWGS Luitz, S Luth, V Schieck, JR Lynch, HL Boyd, JT Marsiske, H Seiden, A Menke, S Penny, RC Wormser, G Messner, R Cohen-Tanugi, J Moffeit, KC Mount, R Richman, JD Dorfan, DE Muller, DR O'Grady, CP Ozcan, VE Perl, M Petrak, S Turri, M Bionta, RM Quinn, H Ratcliff, BN Ferrag, S Michelon, G Blaylock, G Watson, AT Robertson, SH Rochester, LS Roodman, A Schietinger, T Schindler, RH Schwiening, J Brigljevic, V Serbo, VV Morandin, M Walkowiak, W Dallapiccola, C Snyder, A Chun, S Soha, A Spanier, SM Watson, NK Stelzer, J Su, D Sullivan, MK Posocco, M Lange, D Tanaka, HA Mallik, U Va'vra, J Wagner, SR Williams, DC Roussot, E Weinstein, AJR Wisniewski, WJ Wright, DH Rotondo, M Young, CC Deppermann, T Mugge, M Borgland, AW Burchat, PR Cheng, CH Kirkby, D Meyer, TI Roat, C Brown, DN Simonetto, F Wilson, MG Henderson, R Bugg, W Cohn, H Flood, K van Bibber, K Weidemann, AW Izen, JM Goetzen, K Kitayama, I Stroili, R Lou, XC Bianchi, F T'Jampens, S Bona, M Chen, E Hertzbach, SS Gamba, D Wright, DM Smol, A Bosisio, L Dubitzky, RS Della Ricca, G Lanceri, L Poropat, P Koch, H Vuagnin, G Thiebaux, C LeClerc, C Panvini, RS Brown, CM Jacobsen, RG Torassa, E Dubois-Felsmann, GP Jackson, PD Kowalewski, R Roney, JM Band, HR Charles, E Dasu, S Kofler, R Di Lodovico, F Vasileiadis, G Voci, C Kunze, M Kozanecki, W Eichenbaum, AM Hu, H Dvoretskii, A Johnson, JR Liu, R Pan, Y Koptchev, VG Prepost, R Forti, AC Scott, IJ Sekula, SJ Verderi, M Carroll, M von Wimmersperg-Toeller, JH Wu, SL Lewandowski, B Yu, Z Wang, P Moore, TB Campagnari, C Kordich, TMB Neal, H BABAR Collaboration Peters, K Schmuecker, H Chen, JC Anjomshoaa, A Steinke, M Andress, JC Barlow, NR Benayoun, M Staengle, H Bhimji, W Chevalier, N Hitlin, DG Clark, PJ Cottingham, WN Dyce, N Fry, JR Foster, B Bernet, R Briand, H Mackay, C Willocq, S Wallom, D Wilson, FF Abe, K Hearty, C Mattison, TS Metzler, S McKenna, JA Gabathuler, E Eisner, AM Thiessen, D Jolly, S Verkerke, W Khan, A McKemey, AK Blinov, VE Bukin, AD Bukin, DA Buzykaev, AR Golubev, VB Roe, NA Ivanchenko, VN Gamet, R Oyang, J Cochran, J Korol, AA Kravchenko, EA Lavin, D Onuchin, AP Salnikov, AA Serednyakov, SI Chauveau, J Skovpen, YI Telnov, VI Yushkov, AN George, M Brau, B Best, D Chao, M Porter, FC Lankford, AJ MacFarlane, DB David, P Mandelkern, M McMahon, S Stoker, DP Ryd, A Samuel, A Arisaka, K Kay, M Weaver, M Yang, S Zhu, RY de la Vaissiere, C Devmal, S Zhu, YS Muheim, F Geld, TL Jayatilleke, S Mancinelli, G Cowan, R Meadows, BT Payne, DJ Sokoloff, MD Del Buono, L Barillari, T Bloom, P Dima, MO Fahey, S Ford, WT Playfer, S Eigen, G Sciolla, G Johnson, DR Nauenberg, U Hauke, A Sloane, RJ Olivas, A Rankin, P Roy, J Sen, S Smith, JG van Hoek, WC Wagner, DL Taylor, F Button-Shafer, J Fullwood, J Blouw, J Stugu, B Touramanis, C Harton, JL Krishnamurthy, M Soffer, A Toki, WH Wilson, RJ Zhang, J Yamamoto, RK Hamon, O Aleksan, R de Lesquen, A Swain, JE Emery, S Langer, M Gaidot, A Abrams, GS Ganzhur, SF Tinslay, J Falbo, M Giraud, PF Levi, ME Borean, C Bozzi, C Dittongo, S Piemontese, L Prell, S Aspinwall, ML Treadwell, E Anulli, F Baldini-Ferroli, R Le Diberder, F Cahn, RN Milek, M Calcaterra, A de Sangro, R Falciai, D Finocchiaro, G Patteri, P Peruzzi, IM Kadel, RW Rahatlou, S Leruste, P Piccolo, M Xie, Y Patel, PM Zallo, A Bagnasco, S Clark, AR Buzzo, A Contri, R Crosetti, G Lo Vetere, M Ocariz, J Hart, PA Macri, M Raven, G Palombo, F Monge, MR Passaggio, S Pastore, FC Patrignani, C Pia, MG Gill, MS Roos, L Robutti, E Santroni, A Bowerman, DA Tosi, S Crawley, HB Morii, M Sharma, V Bartoldus, R Dauncey, PD Egede, U Grillo, AA Eschrich, I Gunawardane, NJW Nash, JA Sanders, P London, GW Bauer, JM Smith, D Azzopardi, DE Back, JJ Kuznetsova, N Stark, J Kadyk, J Dixon, P Harrison, PF Potter, RJL Shorthouse, HW Strother, P Witherell, M Mayer, B Vidal, PB Williams, MI Romosan, A Cowan, G George, S Levy, SL Green, MG Kerth, LT Kurup, A Marker, CE Zito, M McGrath, P Serfass, B Versille, S McMahon, TR Ricciardi, S Salvatore, F Scott, I Vaitsas, G Long, O Brown, D Davis, CL Cremaldi, L Kolomensky, YG Jackson, F Allison, J Vasseur, G Barlow, RJ Eschenburg, V Kroeger, R Reidy, J Sanders, DA Summers, DJ Lynch, G Fischer, PA Manfredi, PF Martin, JP Nief, JY Seitz, R Brandt, T Yellin, S Taras, P Zacek, V Nicholson, H Sutton, CS Cartaro, C Maly, E Gritsan, AV Cavallo, N De Nardo, G Oddone, PJ Fabozzi, F Brose, J Gatto, C Beringer, J Lista, L Paolucci, P Grosdidier, G Piccolo, D Lamsa, J Sciacca, C LoSecco, JM Alsmiller, JRG Gabriel, TA Handler, T Colberg, T Perazzo, A Brau, J Re, V Qi, ND Frey, R Meyer, WT Iwasaki, M Speziali, V Frank, ED Gladney, L Guo, QH Panetta, J Grothe, M Lafferty, GD Angelini, C Batignani, G Ronan, MT Hast, C Muller-Pfefferkorn, R Bettarini, S Bondioli, M Carpinelli, M Forti, F Giorgi, MA Lu, A Lusiani, A Martinez-Vidal, F Heusch, CA Morganti, M Hocker, A Neri, N Otto, S Paoloni, E Shelkov, VG Rama, M Savvas, N Rizzo, G Sandrelli, F Simi, G Triggiani, G Walsh, J Lacker, HM Johnson, RP Haire, M Buchanan, C Judd, D Simopoulos, ET Paick, K |
Keywords: | Science & Technology;Physical Sciences;Astronomy & Astrophysics;Physics, Particles & Fields;Physics |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Citation: | Physical Review D, 65(9): Artn 091104, May 2002 |
Abstract: | New measurements of Ds+ and Ds*+ meson production rates from B decays and from qq̅ continuum events near the Υ(4S) resonance are presented. Using 20.8 fb-1 of data on the Υ(4S) resonance and 2.6 fb-1 off-resonance, we find the inclusive branching fractions B(B⃗Ds+X)=(10.93±0.19±0.58±2.73)% and B(B⃗Ds*+X)=(7.9±0.8±0.7±2.0)%, where the first error is statistical, the second is systematic, and the third is due to the Ds+→φπ+ branching fraction uncertainty. The production cross sections σ(e+e-→Ds+X)×B(Ds+→φπ+)=7.55±0.20±0.34pb and σ(e+e-→Ds*±X)×B(Ds+→φπ+)=5.8±0.7±0.5pb are measured at center-of-mass energies about 40 MeV below the Υ(4S) mass. The branching fractions ΣB(B⃗Ds(*)+D(*))=(5.07±0.14±0.30±1.27)% and ΣB(B⃗Ds*+D(*))=(4.1±0.2±0.4±1.0)% are determined from the Ds(*)+ momentum spectra. The mass difference m(Ds+)-m(D+)=98.4±0.1±0.3MeV/c2 is also measured. |
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URI: | http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v65/i9/e091104 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7532 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.65.091104 |
ISSN: | 0556-2821 |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic and Computer Engineering Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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