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1. Optimization study for the experimental configuration of CMB-S4

Author: Barron, D, Chinone, Y, Kusaka, A, Borril, J, Errard, J, Feeney, S, Ferraro, S, Keskitalo, R, Lee, AT, Roe, NA, Sherwin, BD, and Suzuki, A
Subjects: CMBR experiments, CMBR polarisation, cosmological parameters from CMBR, gravitational waves and CMBR polarization, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
Abstract: The CMB Stage 4 (CMB-S4) experiment is a next-generation, ground-based experiment that will measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization to unprecedented accuracy, probing the signature of inflation, the nature of cosmic neutrinos, relativistic thermal relics in the early universe, and the evolution of the universe. CMB-S4 will consist of O(500,000) photon-noise-limited detectors that cover a wide range of angular scales in order to probe the cosmological signatures from both the early and late universe. It will measure a wide range of microwave frequencies to cleanly separate the CMB signals from galactic and extra-galactic foregrounds. To advance the progress towards designing the instrument for CMB-S4, we have established a framework to optimize the instrumental configuration to maximize its scientific output. The framework combines cost and instrumental models with a cosmology forecasting tool, and evaluates the scientific sensitivity as a function of various instrumental parameters. The cost model also allows us to perform the analysis under a fixed-cost constraint, optimizing for the scientific output of the experiment given finite resources. In this paper, we report our first results from this framework, using simplified instrumental and cost models. We have primarily studied two classes of instrumental configurations: arrays of large-aperture telescopes with diameters ranging from 2-10 m, and hybrid arrays that combine small-aperture telescopes (0.5-m diameter) with large-aperture telescopes. We explore performance as a function of telescope aperture size, distribution of the detectors into different microwave frequencies, survey strategy and survey area, low-frequency noise performance, and balance between small and large aperture telescopes for hybrid configurations. Both types of configurations must cover both large (∼ degree) and small (∼ arcmin) angular scales, and the performance depends on assumptions for performance vs. angular scale. The configurations with large-aperture telescopes have a shallow optimum around 4-6 m in aperture diameter, assuming that large telescopes can achieve good performance for low-frequency noise. We explore some of the uncertainties of the instrumental model and cost parameters, and we find that the optimum has a weak dependence on these parameters. The hybrid configuration shows an even broader optimum, spanning a range of 4-10 m in aperture for the large telescopes. We also present two strawperson configurations as an outcome of this optimization study, and we discuss some ideas for improving our simple cost and instrumental models used here. There are several areas of this analysis that deserve further improvement. In our forecasting framework, we adopt a simple two-component foreground model with spatially varying power-law spectral indices. We estimate de-lensing performance statistically and ignore non-idealities such as anisotropic mode coverage, boundary effect, and possible foreground residual. Instrumental systematics, which is not accounted for in our analyses, may also influence the conceptual design. Further study of the instrumental and cost models will be one of the main areas of study by the entire CMB-S4 community. We hope that our framework will be useful for estimating the influence of these improvements in the future, and we will incorporate them in order to further improve the optimization.
Published: 2018

2. The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

Author: Alam, S, Ata, M, Bailey, S, Beutler, F, Bizyaev, D, Blazek, JA, Bolton, AS, Brownstein, JR, Burden, A, Chuang, CH, Comparat, J, Cuesta, AJ, Dawson, KS, Eisenstein, DJ, Escoffier, S, Gil-Maŕin, H, Grieb, JN, Hand, N, Ho, S, Kinemuchi, K, Kirkby, D, Kitaura, F, Malanushenko, E, Malanushenko, V, Maraston, C, McBride, CK, Nichol, RC, Olmstead, MD, Oravetz, D, Padmanabhan, N, Palanque-Delabrouille, N, Pan, K, Pellejero-Ibanez, M, Percival, WJ, Petitjean, P, Prada, F, Price-Whelan, AM, Reid, BA, Rodŕiguez-Torres, SA, Roe, NA, Ross, AJ, Ross, NP, Rossi, G, Rubiño-Martin, JA, Saito, S, Salazar-Albornoz, S, Samushia, L, Śanchez, AG, Satpathy, S, Schlegel, DJ, Schneider, DP, Sćoccola, CG, Seo, HJ, Sheldon, ES, Simmons, A, Slosar, A, Strauss, MA, Swanson, MEC, Thomas, D, Tinker, JL, Tojeiro, R, Magaña, MV, Vazquez, JA, Verde, L, Wake, DA, Wang, Y, Weinberg, DH, White, M, Wood-Vasey, WM, Ỳeche, C, Zehavi, I, Zhai, Z, and Zhao, GB
Subjects: distance scale, large-scale structure of Universe, cosmology: observations, astro-ph.CO, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences
Abstract: We present cosmological results from the final galaxy clustering data set of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. Our combined galaxy sample comprises 1.2 million massive galaxies over an effective area of 9329 deg2 and volume of 18.7 Gpc3, divided into three partially overlapping redshift slices centred at effective redshifts 0.38, 0.51 and 0.61. We measure the angular diameter distance DM and Hubble parameterHfrom the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) method, in combinationwith a cosmic microwave background prior on the sound horizon scale, after applying reconstruction to reduce non-linear effects on the BAO feature. Using the anisotropic clustering of the pre-reconstruction density field, we measure the product DMH from the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) effect and the growth of structure, quantified by fσ8(z), from redshift-space distortions (RSD). We combine individual measurements presented in seven companion papers into a set of consensus values and likelihoods, obtaining constraints that are tighter and more robust than those from any one method; in particular, the AP measurement from sub-BAO scales sharpens constraints from post-reconstruction BAOs by breaking degeneracy between DM and H. Combined with Planck 2016 cosmic microwave background measurements, our distance scale measurements simultaneously imply curvature ωK = 0.0003 ± 0.0026 and a dark energy equation-of-state parameter ω =-1.01 ± 0.06, in strong affirmation of the spatially flat cold dark matter (CDM) model with a cosmological constant (ΛCDM). Our RSD measurements of fσ8, at 6 per cent precision, are similarly consistent with this model. When combined with supernova Ia data, we find H0 = 67.3 ± 1.0 kms-1 Mpc-1 even for our most general dark energy model, in tension with some direct measurements. Adding extra relativistic species as a degree of freedom loosens the constraint only slightly, to H0 = 67.8 ± 1.2 kms-1 Mpc-1. Assuming flat ΛCDM, we find ωm = 0.310 ± 0.005 and H0 = 67.6 ± 0.5 kms-1 Mpc-1, and we find a 95 per cent upper limit of 0.16 eV c-2 on the neutrino mass sum.
Published: 2017

3. The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Fourier space

Author: Beutler, F, Seo, HJ, Ross, AJ, McDonald, P, Saito, S, Bolton, AS, Brownstein, JR, Chuang, CH, Cuesta, AJ, Eisenstein, DJ, Font-Ribera, A, Grieb, JN, Hand, N, Kitaura, FS, Modi, C, Nichol, RC, Percival, WJ, Prada, F, Rodriguez-Torres, S, Roe, NA, Ross, NP, Salazar-Albornoz, S, Sánchez, AG, Schneider, DP, Slosar, A, Tinker, J, Tojeiro, R, Vargas-Magaña, M, and Vazquez, JA
Subjects: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences
Abstract: We analyse the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal of the final Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) data release (DR12). Our analysis is performed in the Fourier space, using the power spectrum monopole and quadrupole. The data set includes 1198 006 galaxies over the redshift range 0.2 < z < 0.75.We divide this data set into three (overlapping) redshift bins with the effective redshifts zeff = 0.38, 0.51 and 0.61. We demonstrate the reliability of our analysis pipeline using N-body simulations as well as ~1000 MultiDark- Patchy mock catalogues that mimic the BOSS-DR12 target selection. We apply density field reconstruction to enhance the BAO signal-to-noise ratio. By including the power spectrum quadrupole we can separate the line of sight and angular modes, which allows us to constrain the angular diameter distance DA(z) and the Hubble parameter H(z) separately. We obtain two independent 1.6 and 1.5 per cent constraints on DA(z) and 2.9 and 2.3 per cent constraints on H(z) for the low (zeff = 0.38) and high (zeff = 0.61) redshift bin, respectively. We obtain two independent 1 and 0.9 per cent constraints on the angular averaged distance DV(z), when ignoring the Alcock-Paczynski effect. The detection significance of the BAO signal is of the order of 8σ (post-reconstruction) for each of the three redshift bins. Our results are in good agreement with the Planck prediction within Λ cold dark matter. This paper is part of a set that analyses the final galaxy clustering data set from BOSS. The measurements and likelihoods presented here are combined with others in Alam et al. to produce the final cosmological constraints from BOSS.
Published: 2017

4. Cosmological implications of baryon acoustic oscillation measurements

Author: Aubourg, É, Bailey, S, Bautista, JE, Beutler, F, Bhardwaj, V, Bizyaev, D, Blanton, M, Blomqvist, M, Bolton, AS, Bovy, J, Brewington, H, Brinkmann, J, Brownstein, JR, Burden, A, Busca, NG, Carithers, W, Chuang, CH, Comparat, J, Croft, RAC, Cuesta, AJ, Dawson, KS, Delubac, T, Eisenstein, DJ, Font-Ribera, A, Ge, J, Le Goff, JM, Gontcho, SGA, Gott, JR, Gunn, JE, Guo, H, Guy, J, Hamilton, JC, Ho, S, Honscheid, K, Howlett, C, Kirkby, D, Kitaura, FS, Kneib, JP, Lee, KG, Long, D, Lupton, RH, Magaña, MV, Malanushenko, V, Malanushenko, E, Manera, M, Maraston, C, Margala, D, McBride, CK, Miralda-Escudé, J, Myers, AD, Nichol, RC, Noterdaeme, P, Nuza, SE, Olmstead, MD, Oravetz, D, Pâris, I, Padmanabhan, N, Palanque-Delabrouille, N, Pan, K, Pellejero-Ibanez, M, Percival, WJ, Petitjean, P, Pieri, MM, Prada, F, Reid, B, Rich, J, Roe, NA, Ross, AJ, Ross, NP, Rossi, G, Rubiño-Martín, JA, Sánchez, AG, Samushia, L, Santos, RTG, Scóccola, CG, Schlegel, DJ, Schneider, DP, Seo, HJ, Sheldon, E, Simmons, A, Skibba, RA, Slosar, A, Strauss, MA, Thomas, D, Tinker, JL, Tojeiro, R, Vazquez, JA, Viel, M, Wake, DA, Weaver, BA, Weinberg, DH, Wood-Vasey, WM, Yèche, C, Zehavi, I, and Zhao, GB
Subjects: astro-ph.CO, gr-qc, hep-ex, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
Abstract: We derive constraints on cosmological parameters and tests of dark energy models from the combination of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements with cosmic microwave background (CMB) data and a recent reanalysis of Type Ia supernova (SN) data. In particular, we take advantage of high-precision BAO measurements from galaxy clustering and the Lyman-α forest (LyaF) in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). Treating the BAO scale as an uncalibrated standard ruler, BAO data alone yield a high confidence detection of dark energy; in combination with the CMB angular acoustic scale they further imply a nearly flat universe. Adding the CMB-calibrated physical scale of the sound horizon, the combination of BAO and SN data into an "inverse distance ladder" yields a measurement of H0=67.3±1.1 km s-1 Mpc-1, with 1.7% precision. This measurement assumes standard prerecombination physics but is insensitive to assumptions about dark energy or space curvature, so agreement with CMB-based estimates that assume a flat ΛCDM cosmology is an important corroboration of this minimal cosmological model. For constant dark energy (Λ), our BAO+SN+CMB combination yields matter density Ωm=0.301±0.008 and curvature Ωk=-0.003±0.003. When we allow more general forms of evolving dark energy, the BAO+SN+CMB parameter constraints are always consistent with flat ΛCDM values at ≈1σ. While the overall χ2 of model fits is satisfactory, the LyaF BAO measurements are in moderate (2-2.5σ) tension with model predictions. Models with early dark energy that tracks the dominant energy component at high redshift remain consistent with our expansion history constraints, and they yield a higher H0 and lower matter clustering amplitude, improving agreement with some low redshift observations. Expansion history alone yields an upper limit on the summed mass of neutrino species, mν
Published: 2015

5. DES13S2cmm: the first superluminous supernova from the Dark Energy Survey

Author: Papadopoulos, A, D'Andrea, CB, Sullivan, M, Nichol, RC, Barbary, K, Biswas, R, Brown, PJ, Covarrubias, RA, Finley, DA, Fischer, JA, Foley, RJ, Goldstein, D, Gupta, RR, Kessler, R, Kovacs, E, Kuhlmann, SE, Lidman, C, March, M, Nugent, PE, Sako, M, Smith, RC, Spinka, H, Wester, W, Abbott, TMC, Abdalla, F, Allam, SS, Banerji, M, Bernstein, JP, Bernstein, RA, Carnero, A, da Costa, LN, DePoy, DL, Desai, S, Diehl, HT, Eifler, T, Evrard, AE, Flaugher, B, Frieman, JA, Gerdes, D, Gruen, D, Honscheid, K, James, D, Kuehn, K, Kuropatkin, N, Lahav, O, Maia, MAG, Makler, M, Marshall, JL, Merritt, KW, Miller, CJ, Miquel, R, Ogando, R, Plazas, AA, Roe, NA, Romer, AK, Rykoff, E, Sanchez, E, Santiago, BX, Scarpine, V, Schubnell, M, Sevilla, I, Soares-Santos, M, Suchyta, E, Swanson, M, Tarle, G, Thaler, J, Tucker, LD, Wechsler, RH, and Zuntz, J
Subjects: Space Sciences, Particle and High Energy Physics, Astronomical Sciences, Physical Sciences, surveys, supernovae: general, supernovae: individual: DES13S2cmm, astro-ph.HE, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical sciences, Particle and high energy physics, Space sciences
Abstract: We present DES13S2cmm, the first spectroscopically-confirmed superluminous supernova (SLSN) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES).We briefly discuss the data and search algorithm used to find this event in the first year of DES operations, and outline the spectroscopic data obtained from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope to confirm its redshift (z = 0.663 ± 0.001 based on the host-galaxy emission lines) and likely spectral type (Type I). Using this redshift, we find M peakU = -21.05+0.10-0.09 for the peak, rest-frame U-band absolute magnitude, and find DES13S2cmm to be located in a faint, low-metallicity (subsolar), low stellar-mass host galaxy (log (M/M⊙) = 9.3 ± 0.3), consistent with what is seen for other SLSNe-I. We compare the bolometric light curve of DES13S2cmm to 14 similarly well-observed SLSNe-I in the literature and find that it possesses one of the slowest declining tails (beyond +30 d rest-frame past peak), and is the faintest at peak. Moreover, we find the bolometric light curves of all SLSNe-I studied herein possess a dispersion of only 0.2-0.3 mag between +25 and +30 d after peak (rest frame) depending on redshift range studied; this could be important for 'standardizing' such supernovae, as is done with the more common Type Ia. We fit the bolometric light curve of DES13S2cmm with two competing models for SLSNe-I - the radioactive decay of 56Ni, and a magnetar - and find that while the magnetar is formally a better fit, neither model provides a compelling match to the data. Although we are unable to conclusively differentiate between these two physical models for this particular SLSN-I, further DES observations of more SLSNe-I should break this degeneracy, especially if the light curves of SLSNe-I can be observed beyond 100 d in the rest frame of the supernova.
Published: 2015

6. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: Baryon acoustic oscillations in the data releases 10 and 11 galaxy samples

Author: Anderson, L, Aubourg, E, Bailey, S, Beutler, F, Bhardwaj, V, Blanton, M, Bolton, AS, Brinkmann, J, Brownstein, JR, Burden, A, Chuang, CH, Cuesta, AJ, Dawson, KS, Eisenstein, DJ, Escoffier, S, Gunn, JE, Guo, H, Ho, S, Honscheid, K, Howlett, C, Kirkby, D, Lupton, RH, Manera, M, Maraston, C, McBride, CK, Mena, O, Montesano, F, Nichol, RC, Nuza, SE, Olmstead, MD, Padmanabhan, N, Palanque-Delabrouille, N, Parejko, J, Percival, WJ, Petitjean, P, Prada, F, Price-Whelan, AM, Reid, B, Roe, NA, Ross, AJ, Ross, NP, Sabiu, CG, Saito, S, Samushia, L, Sánchez, AG, Schlegel, DJ, Schneider, DP, Scoccola, CG, Seo, HJ, Skibba, RA, Strauss, MA, Molly, ME, Thomas, D, Tinker, JL, Tojeiro, R, Magaña, MV, Verde, L, Wake, DA, Weaver, BA, Weinberg, DH, White, M, Xu, X, Yèche, C, Zehavi, I, and Zhao, GB
Subjects: cosmological parameters, cosmology: observations, dark energy, distance scale, large-scale structure of Universe, astro-ph.CO, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences
Abstract: We present a one per cent measurement of the cosmic distance scale from the detections of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of galaxies from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, which is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. Our results come from the Data Release 11 (DR11) sample, containing nearly one million galaxies and covering approximately 8500 square degrees and the redshift range 0.2 < z < 0.7. We also compare these results with those from the publicly released DR9 and DR10 samples. Assuming a concordance Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) cosmological model, the DR11 sample covers a volume of 13 Gpc3 and is the largest region of the Universe ever surveyed at this density. We measure the correlation function and power spectrum, including density-field reconstruction of the BAO feature. The acoustic features are detected at a significance of over 7σ in both the correlation function and power spectrum. Fitting for the position of the acoustic features measures the distance relative to the sound horizon at the drag epoch, rd, which has a value of rd,fid = 149.28 Mpc in our fiducial cosmology. We find DV = (1264 ± 25 Mpc)(rd/rd,fid) at z = 0.32 and DV = (2056 ± 20 Mpc)(rd/rd,fid) at z = 0.57. At 1.0 per cent, this latter measure is the most precise distance constraint ever obtained from a galaxy survey. Separating the clustering along and transverse to the line of sight yields measurements at z = 0.57 of DA = (1421 ± 20 Mpc)(rd/rd,fid) and H = (96.8 ± 3.4 kms-1 Mpc-1)(rd,fid/rd). Our measurements of the distance scale are in good agreement with previous BAO measurements and with the predictions from cosmic microwave background data for a spatially flat CDM model with a cosmological constant. © 2014 The Author Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Published: 2014

7. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Measuring growth rate and geometry with anisotropic clustering

Author: Samushia, L, Reid, BA, White, M, Percival, WJ, Cuesta, AJ, Zhao, GB, Ross, AJ, Manera, M, Aubourg, E, Beutler, F, Brinkmann, J, Brownstein, JR, Dawson, KS, Eisenstein, DJ, Ho, S, Honscheid, K, Maraston, C, Montesano, F, Nichol, RC, Roe, NA, Ross, NP, Sánchez, AG, Schlegel, DJ, Schneider, DP, Streblyanska, A, Thomas, D, Tinker, JL, Wake, DA, Weaver, BA, and Zehavi, I
Subjects: gravitation, cosmological parameters, dark energy, dark matter, distance scale, large-scale structure of Universe, astro-ph.CO, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences
Abstract: We use the observed anisotropic clustering of galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 11 CMASS sample to measure the linear growth rate of structure, the Hubble expansion rate and the comoving distance scale. Our sample covers 8498 deg2 and encloses an effective volume of 6 Gpc3 at an effective redshift of z̄ = 0.57. We find fσ8 = 0.441 ± 0.044, H = 93.1 ± 3.0 kms-1 Mpc-1 and DA = 1380 ± 23 Mpc when fitting the growth and expansion rate simultaneously. When we fix the background expansion to the one predicted by spatially flat δ cold dark matter (δCDM) model in agreement with recent Planck results,we find fσ8 =0.447±0.028 (6 per cent accuracy).While our measurements are generally consistent with the predictions of δCDM and general relativity, they mildly favour models in which the strength of gravitational interactions is weaker than what is predicted by general relativity. Combining our measurements with recent cosmic microwave background data results in tight constraints on basic cosmological parameters and deviations from the standard cosmological model. Separately varying these parameters, we find ω = -0.983 ± 0.075 (8 per cent accuracy) and γ = 0.69 ± 0.11 (16 per cent accuracy) for the effective equation of state of dark energy and the growth rate index, respectively. Both constraints are in good agreement with the standard model values of ω = -1 and γ = 0.554. © 2014 The Authors.
Published: 2014

8. The BaBar detector: Upgrades, operation and performance

Author: Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, del Amo Sanchez, P, Gaillard, J-M, Hicheur, A, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Robbe, P, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Tico, J Garra, Lopez, L, Martinelli, M, Palano, A, Pappagallo, M, Pompili, A, Chen, GP, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Borgland, AW, Breon, AB, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Clark, AR, Day, CT, Furman, M, Gill, MS, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadel, RW, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kral, JF, Kukartsev, G, LeClerc, C, Levi, ME, Lynch, G, Merchant, AM, Mir, LM, Oddone, PJ, Orimoto, TJ, Osipenkov, IL, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Romosan, A, Ronan, MT, Shelkov, VG, Suzuki, A, Tackmann, K, Tanabe, T, Wenzel, WA, Zisman, M, Barrett, M, Bright-Thomas, PG, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Knowles, DJ, Morgan, SE, O'Neale, SW, Penny, RC, Smith, D, Soni, N, Watson, AT, Watson, NK, Goetzen, K, Held, T, Koch, H, Kunze, M, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schmuecker, H, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Fella, A, Antonioli, E, Boyd, JT, Chevalier, N, Cottingham, WN, Foster, B, Mackay, C, and Walker, D
Subjects: General-purpose detector for colliding beams, Operational experience, High-luminosity storage ring operation, Ream monitoring, physics.ins-det, hep-ex, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Other Physical Sciences, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: The BaBar detector operated successfully at the PEP-II asymmetric e +e- collider at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory from 1999 to 2008. This report covers upgrades, operation, and performance of the collider and the detector systems, as well as the trigger, online and offline computing, and aspects of event reconstruction since the beginning of data taking. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
Published: 2013

9. Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Ly α forest of BOSS quasars*

Author: Busca, NG, Delubac, T, Rich, J, Bailey, S, Font-Ribera, A, Kirkby, D, Le Goff, JM, Pieri, MM, Slosar, A, Aubourg, E, Bautista, JE, Bizyaev, D, Blomqvist, M, Bolton, AS, Bovy, J, Brewington, H, Borde, A, Brinkmann, J, Carithers, B, Croft, RAC, Dawson, KS, Ebelke, G, Eisenstein, DJ, Hamilton, JC, Ho, S, Hogg, DW, Honscheid, K, Lee, KG, Lundgren, B, Malanushenko, E, Malanushenko, V, Margala, D, Maraston, C, Mehta, K, Miralda-Escudé, J, Myers, AD, Nichol, RC, Noterdaeme, P, Olmstead, MD, Oravetz, D, Palanque-Delabrouille, N, Pan, K, Pâris, I, Percival, WJ, Petitjean, P, Roe, NA, Rollinde, E, Ross, NP, Rossi, G, Schlegel, DJ, Schneider, DP, Shelden, A, Sheldon, ES, Simmons, A, Snedden, S, Tinker, JL, Viel, M, Weaver, BA, Weinberg, DH, White, M, Yèche, C, and York, DG
Subjects: cosmology: observations, dark energy, large-scale structure of Universe, cosmological parameters, astro-ph.CO, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences
Abstract: We report a detection of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the three-dimensional correlation function of the transmitted flux fraction in the Lya forest of high-redshift quasars. The study uses 48 640 quasars in the redshift range 2.1 = z = 3.5 from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III). At a mean redshift z = 2.3, we measure the monopole and quadrupole components of the correlation function for separations in the range 20 h-1 Mpc < r < 200 h-1 Mpc. A peak in the correlation function is seen at a separation equal to (1.01 ± 0.03) times the distance expected for the BAO peak within a concordance .CDM cosmology. This first detection of the BAO peak at high redshift, when the universe was strongly matter dominated, results in constraints on the angular diameter distance DA and the expansion rate H at z = 2.3 that, combined with priors on H0 and the baryon density, require the existence of dark energy. Combined with constraints derived from cosmic microwave background observations, this result implies H(z = 2.3) = (224 ± 8) km s-1 Mpc-1, indicating that the time derivative of the cosmological scale parameter .a = H(z = 2.3)/(1 + z) is significantly greater than that measured with BAO at z ∼ 0.5. This demonstrates that the expansion was decelerating in the range 0.7 < z < 2.3, as expected from the matter domination during this epoch. Combined with measurements of H0, one sees the pattern of deceleration followed by acceleration characteristic of a dark-energy dominated universe. © 2013 ESO.
Published: 2013

10. Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Ly-α forest of BOSS quasars

Author: Busca, Nicolás G, Delubac, Timothée, Rich, James, Bailey, Stephen, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Kirkby, David, Goff, J-M Le, Pieri, Matthew M, Slosar, Anze, Aubourg, Éric, Bautista, Julian E, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S, Bovy, Jo, Brewington, Howard, Borde, Arnaud, Brinkmann, J, Carithers, Bill, Croft, Rupert AC, Dawson, Kyle S, Ebelke, Garrett, Eisenstein, Daniel J, Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W, Honscheid, Klaus, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lundgren, Britt, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Margala, Daniel, Maraston, Claudia, Mehta, Kushal, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Myers, Adam D, Nichol, Robert C, Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Olmstead, Matthew D, Oravetz, Daniel, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J, Petitjean, Patrick, Roe, NA, Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Nicholas P, Rossi, Graziano, Schlegel, David J, Schneider, Donald P, Shelden, Alaina, Sheldon, Erin S, Simmons, Audrey, Snedden, Stephanie, Tinker, Jeremy L, Viel, Matteo, Weaver, Benjamin A, Weinberg, David H, White, Martin, Yèche, Christophe, and York, Donald G
Subjects: astro-ph.CO, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical sciences, Particle and high energy physics, Space sciences
Abstract: We report a detection of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in thethree-dimensional correlation function of the transmitted flux fraction in the\Lya forest of high-redshift quasars. The study uses 48,640 quasars in theredshift range $2.1\le z \le 3.5$ from the Baryon Oscillation SpectroscopicSurvey (BOSS) of the third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey(SDSS-III). At a mean redshift $z=2.3$, we measure the monopole and quadrupolecomponents of the correlation function for separations in the range$20\hMpc
Published: 2012

11. Publisher’s Note: Erratum: Measurement of Branching Fractions and Mass Spectra of B→Kππγ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 211804 (2007)] [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 189903 (2008)]

Author: Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Pappagallo, M, Pompili, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Breon, AB, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Day, CT, Gill, MS, Gritsan, AV, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadel, RW, Kadyk, J, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Oddone, PJ, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Wenzel, WA, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Morgan, SE, Watson, AT, Fritsch, M, Goetzen, K, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Chevalier, N, Cottingham, WN, Kelly, MP, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, AE, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Kravchenko, EA, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Yushkov, AN, Best, D, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Mandelkern, M, Mommsen, RK, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, and Buchanan, C
Subjects: Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, General Physics
Published: 2008

12. Erratum: Measurement of branching fractions and mass spectra of B→Kππγ (Physical Review Letters (2007) 98 (211804))

Author: Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Pappagallo, M, Pompili, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Breon, AB, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Day, CT, Gill, MS, Gritsan, AV, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadel, RW, Kadyk, J, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, YG, Kukartsev, G, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Oddone, PJ, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Wenzel, WA, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Morgan, SE, Watson, AT, Fritsch, M, Goetzen, K, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Chevalier, N, Cottingham, WN, Kelly, MP, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, AE, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Kravchenko, EA, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, YI, Solodov, EP, Yushkov, AN, Best, D, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Mandelkern, M, Mommsen, RK, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, and Buchanan, C
Subjects: General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Published: 2008

13. Determination of the form factors for the decay B0→D*-l+νl and of the CKM matrix element

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Tico, JG, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, YG, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, DL, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, YI, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, KY, Bondioli, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, Flacco, CJ, Heusch, CA, Kroseberg, J, and Lockman, WS
Subjects: Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: We present a combined measurement of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element |Vcb| and of the parameters ρ2, R1(1), and R2(1), which fully characterize the form factors for the B0→D*- +ν decay in the framework of heavy-quark effective field theory. The results, based on a selected sample of about 52800 B0→D*- +ν decays, recorded by the BABAR detector, are ρ2=1.157±0.094±0.027, R1(1)=1. 327±0.131±0.043, R2(1)=0.859±0.077±0.021, and F(1)|Vcb|=(34.7±0.4±1.0)×10-3. The first error is the statistical and the second is the systematic uncertainty. Combining these measurements with the previous BABAR measurement of the form factors, which employs a different fit technique on a partial sample of the data, we improve the statistical precision of the result, ρ2=1.191±0.048±0.028, R1(1)=1.429±0.061±0.044, R2(1)=0.827±0.038±0.022, and F(1)|Vcb|=(34.4±0.3±1.1)×10-3. Using lattice calculations for the axial form factor F(1), we extract |Vcb|=(37.4±0. 3±1.2±1.41.2)×10-3, where the third error is due to the uncertainty in F(1). We also present a measurement of the exclusive branching fraction, B=(4.69±0.04±0.34)%. © 2008 The American Physical Society.
Published: 2008

14. Measurement of the absolute branching fraction of D0-->K-pi+.

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Garra Tico, J, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lopes Pegna, D, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Bondioli, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, Flacco, CJ, Heusch, CA, Kroseberg, J, and Lockman, WS
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, hep-ex, General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: We measure the absolute branching fraction for D(0)-->K(-)pi(+) using partial reconstruction of B(0)-->D(*+)Xl(-)nu(l) decays, in which only the charged lepton and the pion from the decay D(*+)-->D(0)pi(+) are used. Based on a data sample of 230 x 10(6) BB pairs collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory at SLAC, we obtain B(D(0)-->K(-)pi(+)) = (4.007+/-0.037+/-0.072)%, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic.
Published: 2008

15. Exclusive branching-fraction measurements of semileptonic tau decays into three charged hadrons, into phipi(-)nu tau, and into phi K(-)nu tau.

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Gill, MS, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, D Lopes, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Wenzel, WA, del Amo Sanchez, P, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Best, DS, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Long, O, Shen, BC, Wang, K, Zhang, L, and Hadavand, HK
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, Aging, General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: Using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 342 fb(-1) collected with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II electron-positron storage ring operating at a center-of-mass energy near 10.58 GeV, we measure B(tau(-)--> pi(-)pi(-)pi+nu(tau)(ex.K(S0))=(8.83+/-0.01+/-0.13)%, B(tau(-) -->K(-)pi(-)pi+nu tau(ex.K(S0))=(0.273+/-0.002+/-0.009)%, B(tau(-) -->K(-)pi(-)K+nu tau)=(0.1346+/-0.0010+/-0.0036)%, and B(tau(-) -->K(-)K(-)K+nu tau)=(1.58+/-0.13+/-0.12)x10;{-5}, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. These include significant improvements over previous measurements and a first measurement of B(tau(-) -->K(-)K(-)K+nu tau) in which no resonance structure is assumed. We also report a first measurement of B(tau(-) -->var phi(-)nu tau)=(3.42+/-0.55+/-0.25)x10(-5), a new measurement of B(tau(-) -->var phi K(-)nu tau)=(3.39+/-0.20+/-0.28)x10(-5) and a first upper limit on B(tau(-) -->K(-)K(-)K+nu tau(ex.var phi)).
Published: 2008

16. Measurement of CP Violation Parameters with a Dalitz Plot Analysis of B±→Dπ+π-π0K±

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, D Lopes, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, del Amo Sanchez, P, Barrett, M, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Hill, EJ, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, and Sharma, V
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, General Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: We report the results of a CP violation analysis of the decay B{+/-}-->D{pi{+}pi{-}pi;{0}}K{+/-}, where D{pi{+}pi{-}pi{0}} indicates a neutral D meson detected in the final state pi{+}pi{-}pi{0}, excluding K{S}{0}pi{0}. The analysis makes use of 324 x 10{6}e{+}e{-}-->BB[over ] events recorded by the BABAR experiment at the PEP-II e;{+}e;{-} storage ring. Analyzing the pi;{+}pi;{-}pi;{0} Dalitz plot distribution and the B{+/-}-->D{pi{+}pi{-}pi{0}}K{+/-} branching fraction and decay rate asymmetry, we find the following one-standard-deviation constraints on the amplitude ratio and on the weak and strong phases: 0.06pi{+}pi{-}pi{0} decay amplitude.
Published: 2007

17. Measurement of CP violation parameters with a Dalitz plot analysis of B{+/-}-->D{pi{+}pi{-}pi{0}}K{+/-}.

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, D Lopes, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Barrett, M, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Hill, EJ, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, and Sharma, V
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: We report the results of a CP violation analysis of the decay B{+/-}-->D{pi{+}pi{-}pi;{0}}K{+/-}, where D{pi{+}pi{-}pi{0}} indicates a neutral D meson detected in the final state pi{+}pi{-}pi{0}, excluding K{S}{0}pi{0}. The analysis makes use of 324 x 10{6}e{+}e{-}-->BB[over ] events recorded by the BABAR experiment at the PEP-II e;{+}e;{-} storage ring. Analyzing the pi;{+}pi;{-}pi;{0} Dalitz plot distribution and the B{+/-}-->D{pi{+}pi{-}pi{0}}K{+/-} branching fraction and decay rate asymmetry, we find the following one-standard-deviation constraints on the amplitude ratio and on the weak and strong phases: 0.06pi{+}pi{-}pi{0} decay amplitude.
Published: 2007

18. Measurement of CP asymmetries in B0→KS0KS0KS0 decays

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Garra Tico, J, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, YG, Kukartsev, G, Lopes Pegna, D, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, YI, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, KY, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, and Flacco, CJ
Subjects: Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: We present measurements of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in B0→KS0KS0KS0 decays based on 384×106 Υ(4S)→BB̄ decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC. We obtain the CP asymmetry parameters C=0.02±0.21±0.05 and S=-0.71±0.24±0.04, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second systematic. These results are consistent with standard model expectations. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Published: 2007

19. Search for the decay B + → K-* 0 (892) K+

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Tico, JG, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, YG, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, DL, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, YI, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, KY, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, and Flacco, CJ
Subjects: Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics
Abstract: We report on a search for the process B+→K̄*0(892)K+ using 232×106 Υ(4S)→BB̄ decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory at SLAC. From a signal yield of 25±13[stat]±7[syst] B+→K̄*0(892)(→K-π+)K+ events, we place an upper limit on the branching fraction B(B+→K̄ *0(892)K+) of 1.1×10-6, at the 90% confidence level. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Published: 2007

20. Improved measurement of CP violation in neutral B decays to cc[over]s.

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Garra Tico, J, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lopes Pegna, D, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Bondioli, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, Flacco, CJ, Heusch, CA, Kroseberg, J, and Lockman, WS
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: We present updated measurements of time-dependent CP asymmetries in fully-reconstructed neutral B decays to several CP eigenstates containing a charmonium meson. The measurements use a data sample of (383+/-4)x10(6) Upsilon(4S)-->BB[over] decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B factory. We determine sin2beta = 0.714+/-0.032(stat)+/-0.018(syst) and |lambda|=0.952+/-0.022(stat)+/-0.017(syst).
Published: 2007

21. Study of B0→ρ+ρ- decays and constraints on the CKM angle α

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Tico, JG, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, YG, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, DL, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, YI, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, KY, Bondioli, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, Flacco, CJ, Heusch, CA, Kroseberg, J, and Lockman, WS
Subjects: Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics
Abstract: We present results from an analysis of B0→ρ+ρ- decays using (383.6±4.2)×106 BB̄ pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory at SLAC. The measurements of the B0→ρ+ρ- branching fraction, longitudinal polarization fraction fL, and the CP-violating parameters Slong and Clong are as follows: B(B0→ρ+ρ-)=(25.5±2.1(stat)-3.9+3.6(syst))×10-6, fL=0.992±0.024(stat)-0.013+0.026(syst), Slong=-0.17±0.20(stat)-0. 06+0.05(syst), Clong=0.01±0.15(stat)±0.06(syst). We determine the unitarity triangle angle α, using an isospin analysis of B→ρρ decays. One of the two solutions, α=[73.1,117.0]° at 68% confidence level, is compatible with standard model-based fits of existing data. Constraints on the unitarity triangle are also evaluated using an SU(3) symmetry-based approach. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Published: 2007

22. Measurement of the relative branching fractions of B̄→D/D*/ D**l-ν̄l decays in events with a fully reconstructed B meson

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Tico, JG, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, YG, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, DL, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, YI, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, KY, Bondioli, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, Flacco, CJ, Heusch, CA, Kroseberg, J, and Lockman, WS
Subjects: Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics
Abstract: We determine the relative branching fractions of semileptonic B decays to charmed final states. The measurement is performed on the recoil from a fully reconstructed B meson in a sample of 362×106 BB̄ pairs collected at the Υ(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector. A simultaneous fit to a set of discriminating variables is performed on a sample of B̄→DX-ν̄ decays to determine the contributions from the different channels. We measure Γ(B-→D-ν̄)/Γ(B-→DX-ν̄)=0.227±0. 014±0.016, Γ(B-→D*-ν̄)/Γ(B-→DX- ν̄)=0.582±0.018±0.030, and Γ(B-→D **-ν̄)/Γ(B-→DX-ν̄)=0.191±0. 013±0.019 for the charged B sample, and Γ(B0̄→D- ν̄)/Γ(B0̄→DX-ν̄)=0.215±0.016±0. 013, Γ(B0̄→D*-ν̄)/Γ(B0̄→DX- ν̄)=0.537±0.031±0.036, and Γ(B0̄→ D**-ν̄)/Γ(B0̄→DX-ν̄)=0.248±0. 032±0.030 for the neutral B sample, where uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Published: 2007

23. Measurement of the relative branching fractions of B¯→D/D*/D**l-ν¯l decays in events with a fully reconstructed B meson

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Tico, J Garra, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, D Lopes, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Bondioli, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, Flacco, CJ, Heusch, CA, Kroseberg, J, and Lockman, WS
Subjects: Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: We determine the relative branching fractions of semileptonic B decays to charmed final states. The measurement is performed on the recoil from a fully reconstructed B meson in a sample of 362×106 BB̄ pairs collected at the Υ(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector. A simultaneous fit to a set of discriminating variables is performed on a sample of B̄→DX-ν̄ decays to determine the contributions from the different channels. We measure Γ(B-→D-ν̄)/Γ(B-→DX-ν̄)=0.227±0. 014±0.016, Γ(B-→D*-ν̄)/Γ(B-→DX- ν̄)=0.582±0.018±0.030, and Γ(B-→D **-ν̄)/Γ(B-→DX-ν̄)=0.191±0. 013±0.019 for the charged B sample, and Γ(B0̄→D- ν̄)/Γ(B0̄→DX-ν̄)=0.215±0.016±0. 013, Γ(B0̄→D*-ν̄)/Γ(B0̄→DX- ν̄)=0.537±0.031±0.036, and Γ(B0̄→ D**-ν̄)/Γ(B0̄→DX-ν̄)=0.248±0. 032±0.030 for the neutral B sample, where uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Published: 2007

24. Measurement of the Time-Dependent CP Asymmetry in B0→DCP(*)h0 Decays

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Tico, J Garra, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, D Lopes, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, and Flacco, CJ
Subjects: Color, Mesons, Models, Theoretical, BABAR Collaboration, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, General Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: We report a measurement of the time-dependent CP-asymmetry parameters S and C in color-suppressed B{0}-->D{(*)0}h{0} decays, where h{0} is a pi{0}, eta, or omega meson, and the decays to one of the CP eigenstates K+K-, K{S}{0}pi{0}, or K{S}{0}omega. The data sample consists of 383 x 10{6} Upsilon(4S)-->BB decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory at SLAC. The results are S=-0.56+/-0.23+/-0.05 and C=-0.23+/-0.16+/-0.04, where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic.
Published: 2007

25. Measurement of the Time-Dependent CP Asymmetry in B;{0}-->D_{CP};{(*)}h;{0} Decays.

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Garra Tico, J, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lopes Pegna, D, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, and Flacco, CJ
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, Mesons, Color, Models, Theoretical, General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: We report a measurement of the time-dependent CP-asymmetry parameters S and C in color-suppressed B{0}-->D{(*)0}h{0} decays, where h{0} is a pi{0}, eta, or omega meson, and the decays to one of the CP eigenstates K+K-, K{S}{0}pi{0}, or K{S}{0}omega. The data sample consists of 383 x 10{6} Upsilon(4S)-->BB decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory at SLAC. The results are S=-0.56+/-0.23+/-0.05 and C=-0.23+/-0.16+/-0.04, where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic.
Published: 2007

26. Measurement of decay amplitudes of B→J/ψK, ψ(2S)K, and χc1K* with an angular analysis

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Tico, JG, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, YG, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, DL, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, YI, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, KY, Bondioli, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, Flacco, CJ, Heusch, CA, Kroseberg, J, and Lockman, WS
Subjects: Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: We perform the first three-dimensional measurement of the amplitudes of B→ψ(2S)K* and B→χc1K* decays and update our previous measurement for B→J/ψK*. We use a data sample collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II storage ring, corresponding to 232×106 BB̄ pairs. The longitudinal polarization of decays involving a JPC=1++ χc1 meson is found to be larger than that with a 1 - J/ψ or ψ(2S) meson. No direct CP-violating charge asymmetry is observed. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Published: 2007

27. Branching fraction and charge asymmetry measurements in B→J/ψππ decays

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Garra Tico, J, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, YG, Kukartsev, G, Lopes Pegna, D, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, YI, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, KY, Bondioli, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, Flacco, CJ, Heusch, CA, Kroseberg, J, and Lockman, WS
Subjects: Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics
Abstract: We study the decays B0→J/ψπ+π- and B+→J/ ψπ+π0, including intermediate resonances, using a sample of 382×106 BB̄ pairs recorded by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- B factory. We measure the branching fractions B(B0→J/ψρ0)=(2. 7±0.3±0.2)×10-5 and B(B+→J/ψρ+)=(5.0±0. 7±0.3)×10-5. We also set the following upper limits at the 90% confidence level: B(B0→J/ψπ+π-nonresonant)
Published: 2007

28. Production and decay of Omegac0.

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Tico, J Garra, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, D Lopes, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Bondioli, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, Flacco, CJ, Heusch, CA, Kroseberg, J, and Lockman, WS
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, Complementary and Integrative Health, Prevention, Nutrition, General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: We present an analysis of inclusive Omega(c)(0) baryon production and decays in 230.5 fb(-1) of data recorded with the BABAR detector. Omega(c)(0) baryons are reconstructed in four final states (Omega(-)pi(+), Omega(-)pi(+)pi(0), Omega(-)pi(+)pi(+)pi(-), Xi(-)K(-)pi(+)pi(+)) and the corresponding ratios of branching fractions are measured. We also measure the momentum spectrum in the e(+)e(-) center-of-mass frame. From the spectrum, we observe Omega(c)(0) production from B decays and in cc events, and extract the two rates of production.
Published: 2007

29. Search for the rare decay B-->pil+ l-.

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Garra Tico, J, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lopes Pegna, D, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, and Flacco, CJ
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, General Physics
Abstract: We have performed a search for the flavor-changing neutral-current decays B-->pil+ l-, where l+ l- is either e+ e- or mu+ mu-, using a sample of 230 x 10(6) Upsilon(4S)-->BB decays collected with the BABAR detector. We observe no evidence of a signal and measure the upper limit on the isospin-averaged branching fraction to be B(B-->pil+ l-)pie+/- mu-/+ and measure an upper limit on the isospin-averaged branching fraction of B(B-->pie+/- mu-/+)
Published: 2007

30. Measurement of CP-violating asymmetries in B0→(ρπ)0 using a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Garra Tico, J, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, YG, Kukartsev, G, Lopes Pegna, D, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, YI, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, KY, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, and Flacco, CJ
Subjects: Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: We report a measurement of CP-violating asymmetries in B0→(ρπ) 0→π+π-π0 decays using a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis. The results are obtained from a data sample of 375×106 Υ(4S) →BB̄ decays, collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC. We measure 26 coefficients of the bilinear form-factor terms occurring in the time-dependent decay rate of the B0 meson. We derive the physically relevant quantities from these coefficients. In particular, we measure a constraint on the angle α of the unitarity triangle. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Published: 2007

31. Observation of CP violation in B(0) --> K(+)pi(-) and B(0) --> pi(+)pi(-).

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Garra Tico, J, Grauges, E, Lopez, L, Palano, A, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Sun, L, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lopes Pegna, D, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Bondioli, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, Sharma, V, Berryhill, JW, Campagnari, C, Cunha, A, Dahmes, B, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, Beck, TW, Eisner, AM, Flacco, CJ, Heusch, CA, Kroseberg, J, and Lockman, WS
Subjects: General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: We report observations of CP violation in the decays B(0) --> K(+)pi(-) and B(0) --> pi(+)pi(-) in a sample of 383 x 10(6) Upsilon(4S) --> BB[over] events. We find 4372+/-82 B(0) --> K(+)pi(-) decays and measure the direct CP-violating charge asymmetry A(Kpi) = -0.107+/-0.018(stat)(-0.004)(+0.007)(syst), which excludes the CP-conserving hypothesis with a significance of 5.5 standard deviations. In the same sample, we find 1139+/-49 B(0) --> pi(+)pi(-) decays and measure the CP-violating asymmetries S(pipi) = -0.60+/-0.11(stat)+/-0.03(syst) and C(pipi) = -0.21+/-0.09(stat)+/-0.02(syst). CP conservation in B(0) --> pi(+)pi(-) (S(pipi) = C(pipi) = 0) is excluded at a confidence level 1-C.L. = 8 x 10(-8), corresponding to 5.4 standard deviations.
Published: 2007

32. Measurement of the B±→ρ±π0 branching fraction and direct CP asymmetry

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Gill, MS, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, YG, Kukartsev, G, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, YI, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, KY, Best, DS, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Long, O, Shen, BC, Wang, K, Zhang, L, Hadavand, HK, and Hill, EJ
Subjects: Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: We present improved measurements of the branching fraction and CP asymmetry for the process B±→ρ±π0. The data sample corresponding to 211fb-1 comprises 232×106 Υ(4S)→BB̄ decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B Factory at SLAC. The yield and CP asymmetry are measured using an extended maximum likelihood fitting method. The branching fraction and CP asymmetry are found to be B(B±→ρ±π0)=[10.2±1.4(stat)±0.9(syst)] ×10-6 and ACP(B±→ρ±π0)=-0.01±0.13(stat) ±0.02(syst). © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Published: 2007

33. Measurement of branching fractions and mass spectra of B-->Kpipigamma.

Author: Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Pappagallo, M, Pompili, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Breon, AB, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Day, CT, Gill, MS, Gritsan, AV, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadel, RW, Kadyk, J, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Oddone, PJ, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Wenzel, WA, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Morgan, SE, Watson, AT, Fritsch, M, Goetzen, K, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Chevalier, N, Cottingham, WN, Kelly, MP, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, AE, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Kravchenko, EA, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Yushkov, AN, Best, D, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Mandelkern, M, Mommsen, RK, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, and Buchanan, C
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: We present a measurement of the partial branching fractions and mass spectra of the exclusive radiative penguin processes B-->Kpipigamma in the range m(Kpipi)pi(+)pi(-). Using 232 x 10(6) e(+)e(-)-->BB events recorded by the BABAR experiment at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy storage ring, we measure the branching fractions B(B(+)-->K(+)pi(-)pi(+)gamma)=[2.95+/-0.13(stat)+/-0.20(syst)] x 10(-5), B(B(0)-->K(+)pi(-)pi(0)gamma)=[4.07+/-0.22(stat)+/-0.31(syst)] x 10(-5), B(B(0)-->K(0)pi(+)pi(-)gamma)=[1.85+/-0.21(stat)+/-0.12(syst)] x 10(-5), and B(B(+)-->K(0)pi(+)pi(0)gamma)=[4.56+/-0.42(stat)+/-0.31(syst)] x 10(-5).
Published: 2007

34. Evidence of a broad structure at an invariant mass of 4.32 GeV/c2 in the reaction e+e- --> pi+pi-psi(2S) measured at BABAR.

Author: Aubert, B, Barate, R, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Gill, MS, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Wenzel, WA, del Amo Sanchez, P, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Morgan, SE, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Best, DS, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Mommsen, RK, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Long, O, Shen, BC, Wang, K, and Zhang, L
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: We present a measurement of the cross section of the process e(+)e(-)-->pi(+)pi(-)psi(2S) from threshold up to 8 GeV center-of-mass energy using events containing initial-state radiation, produced at the SLAC PEP-II e(+)e(-) storage rings. The study is based on 298 fb(-1) of data recorded with the BABAR detector. A structure is observed in the cross section not far above threshold, near 4.32 GeV. We also investigate the compatibility of this structure with the Y(4260) previously reported by this experiment.
Published: 2007

35. Measurements of CP-violating asymmetries in B0-->a1+/-(1260)pi-/+ decays.

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lopes Pegna, D, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Barrett, M, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Hill, EJ, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, and Sharma, V
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: We present measurements of CP-violating asymmetries in the decay B(0)-->a(1)(+/-)(1260)pi(-/+) with a(1)(+/-)(1260)-->pi(-/+)pi(+/-)pi(+/-). The data sample corresponds to 384x10(6) BB[over ] pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B factory at SLAC. We measure the CP-violating asymmetry A(CP)(a(1)pi)=-0.07+/-0.07+/-0.02, the mixing-induced CP violation parameter S(a(1)pi)=0.37+/-0.21+/-0.07, the direct CP violation parameter C(a(1)pi)=-0.10+/-0.15+/-0.09, and the parameters DeltaC(a(1)pi)=0.26+/-0.15+/-0.07 and DeltaS(a(1)pi)=-0.14+/-0.21+/-0.06. From these measured quantities we determine the angle alpha(eff)=78.6 degrees +/-7.3 degrees.
Published: 2007

36. Study of inclusive B- and B̄0 decays to flavor-tagged D, Ds, and Λc+

Author: Aubert, B, Barate, R, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Pappagallo, M, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Day, CT, Gill, MS, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, YG, Kukartsev, G, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Oddone, PJ, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Wenzel, WA, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Morgan, SE, Watson, AT, Goetzen, K, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, YI, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, KY, Best, DS, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Mommsen, RK, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Long, O, and Shen, BC
Subjects: Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics
Abstract: We report on a study of inclusive B- and B̄0 meson decays to D0X, D̄0X, D+X, D-X, Ds+X, Ds-X, Λc+X, Λ̄c-X, based on a sample of 231×106 BB̄ events recorded with the BABAR detector at the Υ(4S) resonance. Events are selected by completely reconstructing one B and searching for a reconstructed charm particle in the rest of the event. From the measured branching fractions of these decays, we infer the number of charm and anticharm particles per B̄ decay, separately for charged and neutral parents. We derive the total charm yield per B- decay, nc-=1.208±0. 023±0.040-0.029+0.035, and per B̄0 decay, nc0=1.203±0. 030±0.034-0.035+0.044 where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, and the third reflects the charm branching-fraction uncertainties. We also present the charm momentum distributions measured in the B̄ rest frame. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Published: 2007

37. Branching fraction measurements of B+-->rho+gamma, B0-->rho0gamma, and B0-->omegagamma.

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lopes Pegna, D, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, del Amo Sanchez, P, Barrett, M, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Hill, EJ, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, and Sharma, V
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: We present a study of the decays B+-->rho+gamma, B0-->rho0gamma, and B0-->omegagamma. The analysis is based on data containing 347 x 10(6) BB[over ] events recorded with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B factory. We measure the branching fractions B(B+-->rho+)gamma)=(1.10_(-0.33)(+0.37)+/-0.09)x10(-6) and B(B0-->rho0gamma)=(0.79(-0.20)(+0.22)+/-0.06)x10(-6), and set a 90% C.L. upper limit B(B0-->omegagamma)(rho/omega)gamma)=(1.25(-0.24)(+0.25)+/-0.09)x10(-6), from which we determine |Vtd/Vts|=0.200(-0.020)(+0.021)+/-0.015, where the first uncertainty is experimental and the second is theoretical.
Published: 2007

38. Measurement of the pseudoscalar decay constant fDs using charm-tagged events in e+e- collisions at square root s=10.58 GeV.

Author: Aubert, B, Barate, R, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Pappagallo, M, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Day, CT, Gill, MS, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Oddone, PJ, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Wenzel, WA, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Morgan, SE, Watson, AT, Goetzen, K, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Best, DS, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Mommsen, RK, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Long, O, and Shen, BC
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, Brain Disorders, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: Using 230.2 fb-1 of e+e- annihilation data collected with the BABAR detector at and near the peak of the Upsilon(4S) resonance, 489+/-55 events containing the pure leptonic decay Ds+-->micro;+numicro have been isolated in charm-tagged events. The ratio of partial widths Gamma(D+-->micro+numicro)/Gamma(Ds+-->phipi+) is measured to be 0.143+/-0.018+/-0.006 allowing a determination of the pseudoscalar decay constant fDs=(283+/-17+/-7+/-14) MeV. The errors are statistical, systematic, and from the Ds+-->phipi+ branching ratio, respectively.
Published: 2007

39. Measurements of Λc+ branching fractions of Cabibbo-suppressed decay modes involving Λ and Σ0

Author: Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Pappagallo, M, Pompili, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Best, D, Breon, AB, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Day, CT, Gill, MS, Gritsan, AV, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadel, RW, Kadyk, J, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, YG, Kukartsev, G, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Oddone, PJ, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Wenzel, WA, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Morgan, SE, Watson, AT, Fritsch, M, Goetzen, K, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, AE, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Kravchenko, EA, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, YI, Solodov, EP, Yushkov, AN, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Mommsen, RK, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, and Buchanan, C
Subjects: Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: We measure the branching ratios of the Cabibbo-suppressed decays Λc+→ΛK+ and Λc+→Σ0K+ relative to the Cabibbo-favored decay modes Λc+→Λπ+ and Λc+→Σ0π+ to be 0.044±0.004(stat.)±0.003(syst. ) and 0.038±0.005(stat.)±0.003(syst.), respectively. We set an upper limit on the branching ratio at the 90% confidence level for Λc+→ΛK+π+π- of 4.1×10-2 relative to Λc+→Λπ+, and for Λc+→Σ0K+π+π- of 2.0×10-2 relative to Λc+→Σ0π+. We also measure the branching fraction for the Cabibbo-favored mode Λc+→Σ0π+ relative to Λc+→Λπ+ to be 0.977±0.015(stat.) ±0.051(syst.). This analysis was performed using a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 125fb-1 collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory at SLAC. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Published: 2007

40. Measurement of B decays to Kγ

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Gill, MS, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, YG, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, DL, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Wenzel, WA, Sanchez, PDA, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, YI, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, KY, Best, DS, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Long, O, Shen, BC, Wang, K, Zhang, L, and Hadavand, HK
Subjects: Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: We search for the decays B-→ K-γ and B̄0→ K̄0γ in a data sample of 228×106 BB̄ pairs collected at the Υ(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector. We measure the branching fraction B(B-→ K-γ)=(3.5±0.6±0.4)×10-6 and set an upper limit B(B̄0→ K̄0γ)
Published: 2007

41. Evidence for B(0) --> rho(0)rho(0) decays and implications for the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa angle alpha.

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, D Lopes, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Osipenkov, I, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Sanchez, P Del Amo, Barrett, M, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Hill, EJ, Paar, HP, and Rahatlou, S
Subjects: General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: We search for the decays B(0) --> rho(0)rho(0), B(0) --> rho(0)f(0)(980), and B(0) --> f(0)(980)f(0)(980) in a sample of about 384 x 10(6) Upsilon(4S) --> BB[over] decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e(+)e(-) collider at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. We find evidence for B(0) --> rho(0)rho(0) with 3.5 sigma significance and measure the branching fraction B = (1.07 +/- 0.33 +/- 0.19) x 10(-6) and longitudinal polarization fraction f(L) = 0.87 +/- 0.13 +/- 0.04, where the first uncertainty is statistical, and the second is systematic. The uncertainty on the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa quark-mixing matrix unitarity angle alpha due to penguin contributions in B --> rho rho decays is 18 degrees at the 1 sigma level. We also set upper limits on the B(0) --> rho(0)f(0)(980) and B(0) --> f(0)(980)f(0)(980) decay rates.
Published: 2007

42. Measurement of the B0→π-l+ν Form-Factor Shape and Branching Fraction, and Determination of |Vub| with a Loose Neutrino Reconstruction Technique

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, D Lopes, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, del Amo Sanchez, P, Barrett, M, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Hill, EJ, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, and Sharma, V
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, BABAR Collaboration, Engineering, General Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: We report the results of a study of the exclusive charmless semileptonic decay, B0-->pi(-l)(+nu), undertaken with approximately 227 x 10(6) BB pairs collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector. The analysis uses events in which the signal B decays are reconstructed with an innovative loose neutrino reconstruction technique. We obtain partial branching fractions in 12 bins of q2, the momentum transfer squared, from which we extract the f + (q2) form-factor shape and the total branching fraction B(B0-->pi(-l)(+nu))=(1.46+/-0.07stat+/-0.08syst) x 10(-4). Based on a recent unquenched lattice QCD calculation of the form factor in the range q2>16 GeV2, we find the magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element /Vub/ to be (4.1+/-0.2stat +/- 0.2syst(+0.6)-0.4_{FF}) x 10(-3), where the last uncertainty is due to the normalization of the form factor.
Published: 2007

43. Measurement of B decays to ϕKγ

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Gill, MS, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, D Lopes, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Wenzel, WA, del Amo Sanchez, P, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Best, DS, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Long, O, Shen, BC, Wang, K, Zhang, L, and Hadavand, HK
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Astronomical sciences, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: We search for the decays B-→ K-γ and B̄0→ K̄0γ in a data sample of 228×106 BB̄ pairs collected at the Υ(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector. We measure the branching fraction B(B-→ K-γ)=(3.5±0.6±0.4)×10-6 and set an upper limit B(B̄0→ K̄0γ)
Published: 2007

44. Measurement of the B0-->pi(-l)(+nu) form-factor shape and branching fraction, and determination of /Vub/ with a loose neutrino reconstruction technique.

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Prudent, X, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lopes Pegna, D, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Tackmann, K, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Barrett, M, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Martin, EC, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Shen, BC, Zhang, L, Hill, EJ, Paar, HP, Rahatlou, S, and Sharma, V
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: We report the results of a study of the exclusive charmless semileptonic decay, B0-->pi(-l)(+nu), undertaken with approximately 227 x 10(6) BB pairs collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector. The analysis uses events in which the signal B decays are reconstructed with an innovative loose neutrino reconstruction technique. We obtain partial branching fractions in 12 bins of q2, the momentum transfer squared, from which we extract the f + (q2) form-factor shape and the total branching fraction B(B0-->pi(-l)(+nu))=(1.46+/-0.07stat+/-0.08syst) x 10(-4). Based on a recent unquenched lattice QCD calculation of the form factor in the range q2>16 GeV2, we find the magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element /Vub/ to be (4.1+/-0.2stat +/- 0.2syst(+0.6)-0.4_{FF}) x 10(-3), where the last uncertainty is due to the normalization of the form factor.
Published: 2007

45. Observation of Decays B0→Ds()+π- and B0→Ds()-K+

Author: Aubert, B, Barate, R, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Gill, MS, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Oddone, PJ, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Suzuki, A, Troost, D, Wenzel, WA, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Morgan, SE, Watson, AT, Goetzen, K, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Best, DS, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Mommsen, RK, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Long, O, and Shen, BC
Subjects: Particle and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, BABAR Collaboration, Engineering, General Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: We report the observation of decays B{0}-->D{s}{(*)+}pi- and B{0}-->D{s}{(*)-}K+ in a sample of 230 x 10(6) Upsilon(4S)-->BB[over] events recorded with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+ e- storage ring. We measure the branching fractions B(B{0}-->D{s}{+}pi-)=(1.3+/-0.3(stat)+/-0.2(syst))x10(-5), B(B{0}-->D{s}{-} K+)=(2.5+/-0.4(stat)+/-0.4(syst))x10(-5), B(B{0}-->D{s}{*+}pi-)=(2.8+/-0.6(stat)+/-0.5(syst))x10(-5), and B(B{0}-->D{s}{*-}K+)=(2.0+/-0.5(stat)+/-0.4(syst))x10(-5). The significances of the measurements to differ from zero are 5, 9, 6, and 5 standard deviations, respectively. This is the first observation of B{0}-->D{s}{+}pi-, B{0}-->D{s}{*+}pi-, and B{0}-->D{s}{*-}K+ decays.
Published: 2007

46. Observation of decays B0-->Ds()+ pi- and B0-->Ds()- K+.

Author: Aubert, B, Barate, R, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Gill, MS, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Oddone, PJ, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Suzuki, A, Troost, D, Wenzel, WA, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Morgan, SE, Watson, AT, Goetzen, K, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Best, DS, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Mommsen, RK, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Long, O, and Shen, BC
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: We report the observation of decays B{0}-->D{s}{(*)+}pi- and B{0}-->D{s}{(*)-}K+ in a sample of 230 x 10(6) Upsilon(4S)-->BB[over] events recorded with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+ e- storage ring. We measure the branching fractions B(B{0}-->D{s}{+}pi-)=(1.3+/-0.3(stat)+/-0.2(syst))x10(-5), B(B{0}-->D{s}{-} K+)=(2.5+/-0.4(stat)+/-0.4(syst))x10(-5), B(B{0}-->D{s}{*+}pi-)=(2.8+/-0.6(stat)+/-0.5(syst))x10(-5), and B(B{0}-->D{s}{*-}K+)=(2.0+/-0.5(stat)+/-0.4(syst))x10(-5). The significances of the measurements to differ from zero are 5, 9, 6, and 5 standard deviations, respectively. This is the first observation of B{0}-->D{s}{+}pi-, B{0}-->D{s}{*+}pi-, and B{0}-->D{s}{*-}K+ decays.
Published: 2007

47. Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays τ±→ℓ±π0, ℓ±η, ℓ±η′

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Gill, MS, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Pegna, D Lopes, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Wenzel, WA, del Amo Sanchez, P, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Best, DS, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Long, O, Shen, BC, Wang, K, Zhang, L, and Hadavand, HK
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, General Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: A search for lepton flavor violating decays of the tau lepton to a lighter mass lepton and a pseudoscalar meson has been performed using 339 fb;{-1} of e;{+}e;{-} annihilation data collected at a center-of-mass energy near 10.58 GeV by the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II storage ring. No evidence of a signal has been found, and upper limits on the branching fractions are set at the 10;{-7} level.
Published: 2007

48. Search for lepton flavor violating decays tau(+/-) --> l(+/-)pi0, l(+/-)eta, l(+/-)eta'.

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Gill, MS, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lopes Pegna, D, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Best, DS, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Long, O, Shen, BC, Wang, K, Zhang, L, and Hadavand, HK
Subjects: BABAR Collaboration, General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: A search for lepton flavor violating decays of the tau lepton to a lighter mass lepton and a pseudoscalar meson has been performed using 339 fb;{-1} of e;{+}e;{-} annihilation data collected at a center-of-mass energy near 10.58 GeV by the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II storage ring. No evidence of a signal has been found, and upper limits on the branching fractions are set at the 10;{-7} level.
Published: 2007

49. Search for the reactions e+e-→μ+τ- and e+e-→e+τ-

Author: Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Gill, MS, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, YG, Kukartsev, G, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Hart, AJ, Harrison, TJ, Hawkes, CM, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Asgeirsson, DJ, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, YI, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, KY, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Mommsen, RK, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Long, O, Shen, BC, Wang, K, Zhang, L, Hadavand, HK, and Hill, EJ
Subjects: Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: We report on a search for the lepton-flavor-violating processes e+e-→μ+τ- and e+e-→e+τ-. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 211fb-1 recorded by the BABAR experiment at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at a center-of-mass energy of s=10.58GeV. We find no evidence for a signal and set the 90% confidence level upper limits on the cross sections to be σμτ
Published: 2007

50. Branching fraction measurement of B̄0→D()+π- and B-→D()0π- and isospin analysis of B̄→D(*)π decays

Author: Aubert, B, Barate, R, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, JC, Qi, ND, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, YS, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, GS, Battaglia, M, Brown, DN, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, RN, Charles, E, Gill, MS, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, RG, Kadyk, JA, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, YG, Kukartsev, G, Lynch, G, Mir, LM, Orimoto, TJ, Pripstein, M, Roe, NA, Ronan, MT, Wenzel, WA, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Barrett, M, Ford, KE, Harrison, TJ, Hart, AJ, Hawkes, CM, Morgan, SE, Watson, AT, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, JT, Burke, JP, Cottingham, WN, Walker, D, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, BG, Hearty, C, Knecht, NS, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, DJ, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, VE, Bukin, AD, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, YI, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, KY, Best, DS, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Mommsen, RK, Roethel, W, Stoker, DP, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, SD, Gary, JW, Long, O, Shen, BC, Wang, K, and Zhang, L
Subjects: Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: Using 65×106 Υ(4S)→BB̄ events collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- storage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, we measure the color-favored branching fractions B(B̄0→D+π- )=(2.55±0.05±0.16)×10-3, B(B̄0→D*+π-)=(2. 79±0.08±0.17)×10-3, B(B-→D0π-)=(4.90±0. 07±0.22)×10-3 and B(B-→D*0π-)=(5.52±0. 17±0.42)×10-3, where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. With these results and the current world average for the branching fraction for the color-suppressed decay B̄0→D(*) 0π0, the cosines of the strong phase difference δ between the I=1/2 and I=3/2 isospin amplitudes are determined to be cos δ=0.872-0.007-0.029+0. 008+0.031 for the B̄→Dπ process and cos δ=0.924-0.017-0. 054+0.019+0.063 for the B̄→D*π process. Under the isospin symmetry, the results for cos δ suggest the presence of final-state interactions in the Dπ system. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Published: 2007

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