Measurement of the branching fraction and CP-violating asymmetries in neutral BB decays to D±DD^{*\pm} D^\mp

Collaboration
Mar, 2003
8 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 90 (2003) 221801
e-Print:
Report number:
  • SLAC-PUB-9661,
  • BABAR-PUB-03-004
Experiments:

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Abstract:
We present measurements of the branching fraction and CP-violating asymmetries for neutral B decays to D*+-D-+. The measurement uses a data sample of approximately 88 million Y(4S) --> B Bbar decays collected with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory. We measure the branching fraction to be (8.8 +- 1.0 +- 1.3) x 10^-4 and the time-integrated CP-violating asymmetry between the rates to D*+D- and D*-D+ to be A = -0.03 +- 0.11 +- 0.05. We also measure the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetry parameters to be S-+ = -0.24 +- 0.69 +- 0.12, C-+ = -0.22 +- 0.37 +- 0.10 for B --> D*-D+ and S+- = -0.82 +- 0.75 +- 0.14$, C+- = -0.47 +- 0.40 +- 0.12 for B --> D*+D-. In each case the first error is statistical and the second error is systematic.
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • Upsilon(10570): electroproduction
  • B: pair production
  • B0: hadronic decay
  • B0: branching ratio
  • charmed meson: pair production
  • D
  • D*(2010)
  • asymmetry: CP