Observation of Bs0D0ϕB_s^0 \to \overline{D}^{*0} \phi and search for B0D0ϕB^0 \to \overline{D}^0 \phi decays

Collaboration
Jul 5, 2018
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 98 (2018) 7, 071103
  • Published: Oct 30, 2018
e-Print:
Report number:
  • LHCb-PAPER-2018-015,
  • CERN-EP-2018-158,
  • LHCB-PAPER-2018-015
Experiments:

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Abstract: (APS)
The first observation of the Bs0→D¯*0ϕ decay is reported, with a significance of more than seven standard deviations, from an analysis of pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3  fb-1, collected with the LHCb detector at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The branching fraction is measured relative to that of the topologically similar decay B0→D¯0π+π- and is found to be B(Bs0→D¯*0ϕ)=(3.7±0.5±0.3±0.2)×10-5, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic, and the third from the branching fraction of the B0→D¯0π+π- decay. The fraction of longitudinal polarization in this decay is measured to be fL=(73±15±4)%. The most precise determination of the branching fraction for the Bs0→D¯0ϕ decay is also obtained, B(Bs0→D¯0ϕ)=(3.0±0.3±0.2±0.2)×10-5. An upper limit, B(B0→D¯0ϕ)<2.0 (2.3)×10-6 at 90% (95%) confidence level is set. A constraint on the ω-ϕ mixing angle δ is set at |δ|<5.2° (5.5°) at 90% (95%) confidence level.
Note:
  • p p: colliding beams
  • B/s0: hadronic decay
  • B0: hadronic decay
  • B/s0: branching ratio: measured
  • B0: branching ratio: upper limit
  • branching ratio: ratio
  • polarization: longitudinal
  • p p: scattering
  • vector meson: mixing angle
  • omega(783)