UCL logo

UCL Discovery

UCL home » Library Services » Electronic resources » UCL Discovery

Measurement of the branching fraction and time-dependent CP asymmetry in the decay B-0 ->(D*+D*-KS0)

Aubert, B and Bona, M and Boutigny, D and Couderc, F and Karyotakis, Y and Lees, JP and Poireau, V and Tisserand, V and Zghiche, A and Grauges, E and Palano, A and Chen, JC and Qi, ND and Rong, G and Wang, P and Zhu, YS and Eigen, G and Ofte, I and Stugu, B and Abrams, GS and Battaglia, M and Brown, DN and Button-Shafer, J and Cahn, RN and Charles, E and Gill, MS and Groysman, Y and Jacobsen, RG and Kadyk, JA and Kerth, LT and Kolomensky, YG and Kukartsev, G and Lynch, G and Mir, LM and Orimoto, TJ and Pripstein, M and Roe, NA and Ronan, MT and Wenzel, WA and Sanchez, PD and Barrett, M and Ford, KE and Harrison, TJ and Hart, AJ and Hawkes, CM and Watson, AT and Held, T and Koch, H and Lewandowski, B and Pelizaeus, M and Peters, K and Schroeder, T and Steinke, M and Boyd, JT and Burke, JP and Cottingham, WN and Walker, D and Asgeirsson, DJ and Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T and Fulsom, BG and Hearty, C and Knecht, NS and Mattison, TS and McKenna, JA and Khan, A and Kyberd, P and Saleem, M and Sherwood, DJ and Teodorescu, L and Blinov, VE and Bukin, AD and Druzhinin, VP and Golubev, VB and Onuchin, AP and Serednyakov, SI and Skovpen, YI and Solodov, EP and Todyshev, KY and Bondioli, M and Bruinsma, M and Chao, M and Curry, S and Eschrich, I and Kirkby, D and Lankford, AJ and Lund, P and Mandelkern, M and Mommsen, RK and Roethel, W and Stoker, DP and Abachi, S and Buchanan, C and Foulkes, SD and Gary, JW and Long, O and Shen, BC and Wang, K and Zhang, L and Hadavand, HK and Hill, EJ and Paar, HP and Rahatlou, S and Sharma, V and Berryhill, JW and Campagnari, C and Cunha, A and Dahmes, B and Hong, TM and Kovalskyi, D and Richman, JD and Beck, TW and Eisner, AM and Flacco, CJ and Heusch, CA and Kroseberg, J and Lockman, WS and Nesom, G and Schalk, T and Schumm, BA and Seiden, A and Spradlin, P and Williams, DC and Wilson, MG and Albert, J and Chen, E and Dvoretskii, A and Fang, F and Hitlin, DG and Narsky, I and Piatenko, T and Porter, FC and Ryd, A and Mancinelli, G and Meadows, BT and Mishra, K and Sokoloff, MD and Blanc, F and Bloom, PC and Chen, S and Ford, WT and Hirschauer, JF and Kreisel, A and Nagel, M and Nauenberg, U and Olivas, A and Ruddick, WO and Smith, JG and Ulmer, KA and Wagner, SR and Zhang, J and Chen, A and Eckhart, EA and Soffer, A and Toki, WH and Wilson, RJ and Winklmeier, F and Zeng, Q and Altenburg, DD and Feltresi, E and Hauke, A and Jasper, H and Merkel, J and Petzold, A and Spaan, B and Brandt, T and Klose, V and Lacker, HM and Mader, WF and Nogowski, R and Schubert, J and Schubert, KR and Schwierz, R and Sundermann, JE and Volk, A and Bernard, D and Bonneaud, GR and Latour, E and Thiebaux, C and Verderi, M and Clark, PJ and Gradl, W and Muheim, F and Playfer, S and Robertson, AI and Xie, Y and Andreotti, M and Bettoni, D and Bozzi, C and Calabrese, R and Cibinetto, G and Luppi, E and Negrini, M and Petrella, A and Piemontese, L and Prencipe, E and Anulli, F and Baldini-Ferroli, R and Calcaterra, A and de Sangro, R and Finocchiaro, G and Pacetti, S and Patteri, P and Peruzzi, IM and Piccolo, M and Rama, M and Zallo, A and Buzzo, A and Contri, R and Lo Vetere, M and Macri, MM and Monge, MR and Passaggio, S and Patrignani, C and Robutti, E and Santroni, A and Tosi, S and Brandenburg, G and Chaisanguanthum, KS and Morii, M and Wu, J and Dubitzky, RS and Marks, J and Schenk, S and Uwer, U and Bard, DJ and Bhimji, W and Bowerman, DA and Dauncey, PD and Egede, U and Flack, RL and Nash, JA and Nikolich, MB and Vazquez, WP and Behera, PK and Chai, X and Charles, MJ and Mallik, U and Meyer, NT and Ziegler, V and Cochran, J and Crawley, HB and Dong, L and Eyges, V and Meyer, WT and Prell, S and Rosenberg, EI and Rubin, AE and Gritsan, AV and Denig, AG and Fritsch, M and Schott, G and Arnaud, N and Davier, M and Grosdidier, G and Hocker, A and Le Diberder, F and Lepeltier, V and Lutz, AM and Oyanguren, A and Pruvot, S and Rodier, S and Roudeau, P and Schune, MH and Stocchi, A and Wang, WF and Wormser, G and Cheng, CH and Lange, DJ and Wright, DM and Chavez, CA and Forster, IJ and Fry, JR and Gabathuler, E and Gamet, R and George, KA and Hutchcroft, DE and Payne, DJ and Schofield, KC and Touramanis, C and Bevan, AJ and Di Lodovico, F and Menges, W and Sacco, R and Cowan, G and Flaecher, HU and Hopkins, DA and Jackson, PS and McMahon, TR and Ricciardi, S and Salvatore, F and Wren, AC and Brown, DN and Davis, CL and Allison, J and Barlow, NR and Barlow, RJ and Chia, YM and Edgar, CL and Lafferty, GD and Naisbit, MT and Williams, JC and Yi, JI and Chen, C and Hulsbergen, WD and Jawahery, A and Lae, CK and Roberts, DA and Simi, G and Blaylock, G and Dallapiccola, C and Hertzbach, SS and Li, X and Moore, TB and Saremi, S and Staengle, H and Cowan, R and Sciolla, G and Sekula, SJ and Spitznagel, M and Taylor, F and Yamamoto, RK and Kim, H and Mclachlin, SE and Patel, PM and Robertson, SH and Lazzaro, A and Lombardo, V and Palombo, F and Bauer, JM and Cremaldi, L and Eschenburg, V and Godang, R and Kroeger, R and Sanders, DA and Summers, DJ and Zhao, HW and Brunet, S and Cote, D and Simard, M and Taras, P and Viaud, FB and Nicholson, H and Cavallo, N and De Nardo, G and Fabozzi, F and Gatto, C and Lista, L and Monorchio, D and Paolucci, P and Piccolo, D and Sciacca, C and Baak, MA and Raven, G and Snoek, HL and Jessop, CP and LoSecco, JM and Allmendinger, T and Benelli, G and Corwin, LA and Gan, KK and Honscheid, K and Hufnagel, D and Jackson, PD and Kagan, H and Kass, R and Rahimi, AM and Regensburger, JJ and Ter-Antonyan, R and Wong, QK and Blount, NL and Brau, J and Frey, R and Igonkina, O and Kolb, JA and Lu, M and Rahmat, R and Sinev, NB and Strom, D and Strube, J and Torrence, E and Gaz, A and Margoni, M and Morandin, M and Pompili, A and Posocco, M and Rotondo, M and Simonetto, F and Stroili, R and Voci, C and Benayoun, M and Briand, H and Chauveau, J and David, P and Del Buono, L and de la Vaissiere, C and Hamon, O and Hartfiel, BL and Leruste, P and Malcles, J and Ocariz, J and Roos, L and Therin, G and Gladney, L and Biasini, M and Covarelli, R and Angelini, C and Batignani, G and Bettarini, S and Bucci, F and Calderini, G and Carpinelli, M and Cenci, R and Forti, F and Giorgi, MA and Lusiani, A and Marchiori, G and Mazur, MA and Morganti, M and Neri, N and Paoloni, E and Rizzo, G and Walsh, JJ and Haire, M and Judd, D and Wagoner, DE and Biesiada, J and Danielson, N and Elmer, P and Lau, YP and Lu, C and Olsen, J and Smith, AJS and Telnov, AV and Bellini, F and Cavoto, G and D'Orazio, A and del Re, D and Di Marco, E and Faccini, R and Ferrarotto, F and Ferroni, F and Gaspero, M and Li Gioi, L and Mazzoni, MA and Morganti, S and Piredda, G and Polci, F and Tehrani, FS and Voena, C and Ebert, M and Schroder, H and Waldi, R and Adye, T and De Groot, N and Franek, B and Olaiya, EO and Wilson, FF and Aleksan, R and Emery, S and Gaidot, A and Ganzhur, SF and de Monchenault, GH and Kozanecki, W and Legendre, M and Vasseur, G and Yeche, C and Zito, M and Chen, XR and Liu, H and Park, W and Purohit, MV and Wilson, JR and Allen, MT and Aston, D and Bartoldus, R and Bechtle, P and Berger, N and Claus, R and Coleman, JP and Convery, MR and Cristinziani, M and Dingfelder, JC and Dorfan, J and Dubois-Felsmann, GP and Dujmic, D and Dunwoodie, W and Field, RC and Glanzman, T and Gowdy, SJ and Graham, MT and Grenier, P and Halyo, V and Hast, C and Hryn'ova, T and Innes, WR and Kelsey, MH and Kim, P and Leith, DWGS and Li, S and Luitz, S and Luth, V and Lynch, HL and MacFarlane, DB and Marsiske, H and Messner, R and Muller, DR and O'Grady, CP and Ozcan, VE and Perazzo, A and Perl, M and Pulliam, T and Ratcliff, BN and Roodman, A and Salnikov, AA and Schindler, RH and Schwiening, J and Snyder, A and Stelzer, J and Su, D and Sullivan, MK and Suzuki, K and Swain, SK and Thompson, JM and Va'vra, J and van Bakel, N and Weaver, M and Weinstein, AJR and Wisniewski, WJ and Wittgen, M and Wright, DH and Yarritu, AK and Yi, K and Young, CC and Burchat, PR and Edwards, AJ and Majewski, SA and Petersen, BA and Roat, C and Wilden, L and Ahmed, S and Alam, MS and Bula, R and Ernst, JA and Jain, V and Pan, B and Saeed, MA and Wappler, FR and Zain, SB and Bugg, W and Krishnamurthy, M and Spanier, SM and Eckmann, R and Ritchie, JL and Satpathy, A and Schilling, CJ and Schwitters, RF and Izen, JM and Lou, XC and Ye, S and Bianchi, F and Gallo, F and Gamba, D and Bomben, M and Bosisio, L and Cartaro, C and Cossutti, F and Della Ricca, G and Dittongo, S and Lanceri, L and Vitale, L and Azzolini, V and Lopez-March, N and Martinez-Vidal, F and Banerjee, S and Bhuyan, B and Brown, CM and Fortin, D and Hamano, K and Kowalewski, R and Nugent, IM and Roney, JM and Sobie, RJ and Back, JJ and Harrison, PF and Latham, TE and Mohanty, GB and Pappagallo, M and Band, HR and Chen, X and Cheng, B and Dasu, S and Datta, M and Flood, KT and Hollar, JJ and Kutter, PE and Mellado, B and Mihalyi, A and Pan, Y and Pierini, M and Prepost, R and Wu, SL and Yu, Z and Neal, H and BABAR Collaboration, (2006) Measurement of the branching fraction and time-dependent CP asymmetry in the decay B-0 ->(D*+D*-KS0). PHYS REV D , 74 (9) , Article 091101. 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.091101.

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

We study the decay B-0 ->(D*+D*-KS0) using (230 +/- 2)x10(6)B (B) over bar pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B factory. We measure a branching fraction B(B-0 ->(D*+D*-KS0))=(4.4 +/- 0.4 +/- 0.7)x10(-3) and find evidence for the decay B-0 -> D*-Ds1+(2536) with a significance of 4.6 sigma. A time-dependent CP asymmetry analysis is also performed to study the possible resonant contributions to B-0 ->(D*+D*-KS0) and the sign of cos2 beta. Our measurement indicates that there is a sizable resonant contribution to the decay B-0 ->(D*+D*-KS0) from an unknown D-s1(+) state with large width, and that cos2 beta is positive at the 94% confidence level under certain theoretical assumptions.

Type:Article
Title:Measurement of the branching fraction and time-dependent CP asymmetry in the decay B-0 ->(D*+D*-KS0)
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.091101
Keywords:MESONS, QUARK
UCL classification:UCL > School of BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy

Archive Staff Only: edit this record