Measurement of the branching fractions for the exclusive decays of B 0 and B+ to D̄(*)D(*)K

BABAR Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.68.092001

Measurement of the branching fractions for the exclusive decays of B ⁰ and B⁺ to D̄^()D()K

BABAR Collaboration

Laboratoire de Physique des Particules
Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
University of Bergen
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the RAS
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We report the observation of 823±57 B⁰ and 970±65 B⁺ decays to doubly charmed final states D̄ ^(*)D^(*)K, where D̄^(*) and D^(*) are fully reconstructed and K is either a K ^± or a K⁰. We use a sample of 82.3 ±0.9 million B B̄ events collected between 1999 and 2002 with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II storage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The 22 ossible B decays to D̄^(*)D^(*)K are reconstructed exclusively and the corresponding branching fractions or limits are determined. The branching fractions of the B⁰ and of the B ⁺ to D̄^(*)D^(*)K are found to be Β(B⁰→D̄^(*)D^(*)K) = [4.3±0.3(stat)±0.6(syst)]%, Β(B⁺→D̄ ^(*)D^(*)K) = [3.5±0.3(stat)±0. 5(syst)]%.A search for decays to orbitally excited D_s states, B→D̄^(*)D_sJ ⁺(D_sJ ⁺→D^(*)0K⁺), is also performed. No statistically significant-contributions from D_s1 ⁺(2536) →D*⁰K⁺ and D_sJ ⁺(2573) →D⁰K⁺ to the D̄^(*)D ^(*)0K⁺ final state are found and we set 90% C.L. limits on their production rates.

Original language	English
Article number	092001
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	68
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.68.092001
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2003

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Measurement of the branching fractions for the exclusive decays of B 0 and B+ to D̄(*)D(*)K

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