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First observation of the decays B(0) --> D(*-)p_p pi+ and B(0) --> D(*-)p_n

Authors :
Anderson, S
Frolov, VV
Kubota, Y
Lee, SJ
Mahapatra, R
O'Neill, JJ
Poling, R
Riehle, T
Smith, A
Stepaniak, CJ
Urheim, J
Ahmed, S
Alam, MS
Athar, SB
Jian, L
Ling, L
Saleem, M
Timm, S
Wappler, F
Anastassov, A
Duboscq, JE
Eckhart, E
Gan, KK
Gwon, C
Hart, T
Honscheid, K
Hufnagel, D
Kagan, H
Kass, R
Pedlar, TK
Schwarthoff, H
Thayer, JB
von Toerne, E
Zoeller, MM
Richichi, SJ
Severini, H
Skubic, P
Undrus, A
Chen, S
Fast, J
Hinson, JW
Lee, J
Miller, DH
Shibata, EI
Shipsey, IP
Pavlunin, V
Cronin-Hennessy, D
Lyon, AL
Thorndike, EH
Jessop, CP
Marsiske, H
Perl, ML
Savinov, V
Zhou, X
Coan, TE
Fadeyev, V
Maravin, Y
Narsky, I
Stroynowski, R
Ye, J
Wlodek, T
Artuso, M
Ayad, R
Boulahouache, C
Bukin, K
Dambasuren, E
Karamov, S
Majumder, G
Moneti, GC
Mountain, R
Schuh, S
Skwarnicki, T
Stone, S
Viehhauser, G
Wang, JC
Wolf, A
Wu, J
Kopp, S
Mahmood, AH
Csorna, SE
Danko, I
McLean, KW
Márka, S
Xu, Z
Godang, R
Kinoshita, K
Lai, IC
Schrenk, S
Bonvicini, G
Cinabro, D
McGee, S
Perera, LP
Zhou, GJ
Lipeles, E
Pappas, SP
Schmidtler, M
Shapiro, A
Sun, WM
Weinstein, AJ
Würthwein, F
Jaffe, DE
Masek, G
Paar, HP
Potter, EM
Prell, S
Sharma, V
Asner, DM
Eppich, A
Hill, TS
Morrison, RJ
Briere, RA
Chen, GP
Behrens, BH
Ford, WT
Gritsan, A
Roy, J
Smith, JG
Alexander, JP
Baker, R
Bebek, C
Berger, BE
Berkelman, K
Blanc, F
Boisvert, V
Cassel, DG
Dickson, M
Drell, PS
Ecklund, KM
Ehrlich, R
Foland, AD
Gaidarev, P
Gibbons, L
Gittelman, B
Gray, SW
Hartill, DL
Heltsley, BK
Hopman, PI
Jones, CD
Kandaswamy, J
Kreinick, DL
Lohner, M
Magerkurth, A
Meyer, TO
Mistry, NB
Nordberg, E
Patterson, JR
Peterson, D
Riley, D
Thayer, JG
Urner, D
Valant-Spaight, B
Warburton, A
Avery, P
Prescott, C
Rubiera, AI
Yelton, J
Zheng, J
Brandenburg, G
Ershov, A
Gao, YS
Kim, DY
Wilson, R
Browder, TE
Li, Y
Rodriguez, JL
Yamamoto, H
Bergfeld, T
Eisenstein, BI
Ernst, J
Gladding, GE
Gollin, GD
Hans, RM
Johnson, E
Karliner, I
Marsh, MA
Palmer, M
Plager, C
Sedlack, C
Selen, M
Thaler, JJ
Williams, J
Edwards, KW
Janicek, R
Patel, PM
Sadoff, AJ
Ammar, R
Bean, A
Besson, D
Davis, R
Kwak, N
Zhao, X
Source :
Physical review letters. 86(13)
Publication Year :
2001

Abstract

We report the first observation of exclusive decays of the type B-->D(*)N_NX, where N is a nucleon. Using a sample of 9.7x10(6)B_B pairs collected with the CLEO detector operating at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we measure the branching fractions B(B0-->D(*-)p_p pi(+)) = (6.5(+1.3)(-1.2)+/-1.0)x10(-4) and B(B0-->D(*-)p_n) = (14.5(+3.4)(-3.0)+/-2.7)x10(-4). Antineutrons are identified by their annihilation in the CsI electromagnetic calorimeter.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10797114 and 00319007
Volume :
86
Issue :
13
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Accession number :
edsair.pmid.dedup....3dce3e862ef8107b988c63281d0412cd