First observation of the decays B-0 -> D*- p(p)over-tilde pi(+) and B-0 ->D*- p(n)over-bar

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 Sevrini, H Skubic, P Undrus, A Chen, S Fast, J Hinson, JW Lee, J Miller, DH Shibata, EI Shipsey, IPJ 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 Marka, 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 Wurthwein, 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 Nordbert, 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, DYJ Wilson, R Browder, TE Li, Y Rodriguez, JL Yamamoto, H Bergfeld, T Eisenstein, I 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
Citation
S. Anderson et al., First observation of the decays B-0 -> D*- p(p)over-tilde pi(+) and B-0 ->D*- p(n)over-bar, PHYS REV L, 86(13), 2001, pp. 2732-2736
Citations number
11
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
0031-9007 → ACNP
Volume
86
Issue
13
Year of publication
2001
Pages
2732 - 2736
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(20010326)86:13<2732:FOOTDB>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
We report the first observation of exclusive decays of the type B --> D*N ( N) over barX, where N is a nucleon. Using a sample of 9.7 X 10(6)B (B) over bar pairs collected with the CLEO detector operating at the Cornell Electr on Storage Ring, we measure the branching fractions B(B-0 --> D*(-) p (p) o ver bar pi (+)) = (6.5(-1.2)(+1.3) +/- 1.0) X 10(-4) and B(B-0 --> D*(-) p (n) over bar) = (14.5(-3.0)(+3.4) +/- 2.7) X 10(-4). Antineutrons are ident ified by their annihilation in the CsI electromagnetic calorimeter.