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

George Lafferty, B. Aubert, R. Barate, D. Boutigny, J. M. Gaillard, A. Hicheur, Y. Karyotakis, J. P. Lees, P. Robbe, V. Tisserand, A. Zghiche, A. Palano, A. Pompili, J. C. Chen, N. D. Qi, G. Rong, P. Wang, Y. S. Zhu, G. Eigen, I. OfteB. Stugu, G. S. Abrams, A. W. Borgland, A. B. Breon, D. N. Brown, J. Button-Shafer, R. N. Cahn, E. Charles, C. T. Day, M. S. Gill, A. V. Gritsan, Y. Groysman, R. G. Jacobsen, R. W. Kadel, J. Kadyk, L. T. Keith, Yu G. Kolomensky, J. F. Kral, G. Kukartsev, C. LeClerc, M. E. Levi, G. Lynch, L. M. Mir, P. J. Oddone, T. J. Orimoto, M. Pripstein, N. A. Roe, A. Romosan, M. T. Ronan, V. G. Shelkov, A. V. Telnov, W. A. Wenzel, T. J. Harrison, C. M. Hawkes, D. J. Knowles, R. C. Penny, A. T. Watson, N. K. Watson, T. Deppermann, K. Goetzen, H. Koch, B. Lewandowski, M. Pelizaeus, K. Peters, H. Schmuecker, M. Steinke, N. R. Barlow, J. T. Boyd, N. Chevalier, W. N. Cottingham, C. Mackay, F. F. Wilson, C. Hearty, T. S. Mattison, J. A. McKenna, D. Thiessen, P. Kyberd, A. K. McKemey, V. E. Blinov, A. D. Bukin, V. B. Golubev, V. N. Ivanchenko, E. A. Kravchenko, A. P. Onuchin, S. I. Serednyakov, Yu I. Skovpen, E. P. Solodov, A. N. Yushkov, D. Best, M. Chao, D. Kirkby, A. J. Lankford, M. Mandelkern, S. McMahon, R. K. Mommsen, W. Roethel, D. P. Stoker, C. Buchanan, D. Del Re, H. K. Hadavand

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    Abstract

    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 Ds states, B→D̄(*)DsJ+(DsJ +→D(*)0K+), is also performed. No statistically significant-contributions from Ds1+(2536) →D*0K+ and DsJ+(2573) →D0K+ to the D̄(*)D (*)0K+ final state are found and we set 90% C.L. limits on their production rates. © 2003 The American Physical Society.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number092001
    JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
    Volume68
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2003

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