1. Observation of the decay B- → D(s)((*)+) K- ℓ- ν(ℓ).
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Sanchez, P del Amo, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prencipe, E, Tisserand, V, Garra Tico, J, Grauges, E, Martinelli, M, Palano, A, Pappagallo, M, Eigen, G, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Hooberman, B, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Lynch, G, Osipenkov, IL, Tanabe, T, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Koch, H, Schroeder, T, Asgeirsson, DJ, Hearty, C, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Randle-Conde, A, Blinov, VE, Buzykaev, AR, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Yushkov, AN, Bondioli, M, Curry, S, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Atmacan, H, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Vitug, GM, Campagnari, C, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Eisner, AM, Heusch, CA, Kroseberg, J, Lockman, WS, Martinez, AJ, Schalk, T, Schumm, BA, Seiden, A, Winstrom, LO, Cheng, CH, Doll, DA, Echenard, B, Hitlin, DG, Ongmongkolkul, P, Porter, FC, Rakitin, AY, Andreassen, R, Dubrovin, MS, Mancinelli, G, Meadows, BT, Sokoloff, MD, Bloom, PC, Ford, WT, Gaz, A, Nagel, M, Nauenberg, U, Smith, JG, Wagner, SR, Ayad, R, Toki, WH, Jasper, H, Karbach, TM, Merkel, J, Petzold, A, Spaan, B, Wacker, K, Kobel, MJ, Schubert, KR, Schwierz, R, Bernard, D, Verderi, M, Clark, PJ, and Playfer, S
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BABAR Collaboration ,General Physics ,Physical Sciences ,Mathematical Sciences ,Engineering - Abstract
We report the observation of the decay B- → D(s)((*)+) K- ℓ- ν(ℓ) based on 342 fb(-1) of data collected at the Υ(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+ e- storage rings at SLAC. A simultaneous fit to three D(s)(+) decay chains is performed to extract the signal yield from measurements of the squared missing mass in the B meson decay. We observe the decay B- → D(s)((*)+) K- ℓ- ν(ℓ) with a significance greater than 5 standard deviations (including systematic uncertainties) and measure its branching fraction to be B(B- → D(s)((*)+) K- ℓ- ν(ℓ)) = [6.13(-1.03)(+1.04)(stat)±0.43(syst)±0.51(B(D(s)))]×10(-4), where the last error reflects the limited knowledge of the D(s) branching fractions.
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- 2011