Measurement of the decay amplitudes of B0 --> J/psiK*0 and B(s)(0) --> J/psistraight phi decays
Physical review letters 85:22 (2000) 4668-4673
Authors:
K Terashi, S Tether, D Theriot, R Thurman-Keup, P Tipton, S Tkaczyk, K Tollefson, A Tollestrup, H Toyoda, W Trischuk, de Troconiz JF, J Tseng, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Vaiciulis, J Valls, S Vejcik, G Velev, R Vidal, R Vilar, I Volobouev, D Vucinic, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, J Wahl, NB Wallace
Abstract:
An angular analysis of B0-->J/psiK(*0) and B(0)(s)-->J/psistraight phi has been used to determine the decay amplitudes with parity-even longitudinal ( A0) and transverse ( A( parallel)) polarization and parity-odd transverse ( A( perpendicular)) polarization. The measurements are based on 190 B0 and 40 B(0)(s) candidates obtained from 89 pb(-1) of &pmacr;p collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron. The longitudinal decay amplitude dominates with |A0|(2) = 0.59+/-0. 06+/-0.01 for B0 and |A0|(2) = 0.61+/-0.14+/-0.02 for B(0)(s) decays. The parity-odd amplitude is found to be small with |A( perpendicular)|(2) = 0.13(+0.12)(-0.09)+/-0.06 for B0 and |A( perpendicular)|(2) = 0.23+/-0.19+/-0.04 for B(0)(s) decays.