Determination of the branching fraction for B → Xc ℓ decays and of
Physical Review Letters 93:1 (2004)
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The inclusive B→Xcℓν branching fraction, B cℓν, the Cabibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element, and other heavy quark parameters were determined from a simultaneous fit moments of the hadronic mass and lepton-energy distributions in semileptonic B-meson decays. Using data recorded with BABAR detector, the values were mesured as function of the lower limit on the lepton energy. The vaues for Bceν were extracted using heavy quark expansions (HQE) to the order of 1÷m b3. The stated errors were referred to the experimental, HQE and additional theoretical uncertainties.Measurement of time-dependent CP asymmetries and constraints on sin(2β + γ) with partial reconstruction of B0 → D*±π± decays
Physical Review Letters 92:25 I (2004)
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The time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in partial reconstruction of B0 → D*=∓π∓ decays and constraints on sin(2β + γ) were investigated. The events containing decays were selected with partial reconstruction technique in which only high-momentum π∓ from the B decay and low-momentum π+ from D*∓ were used. The analysis was carried out with series of unbinned maximum-likelihood fits, which were performed simultaneously on the on- and off-resonance data samples. The amplitude of asymmetry was observed to be -0.063∓0.024(stat)∓0.014(stat).Measurement of time-dependent CP asymmetries in B0 → D(*)±π± decays and constraints on sin(2β + γ)
Physical Review Letters 92:25 I (2004)
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The CP-violating asymmetries in fully reconstructed B0 → D(*)∓π∓ decays and constraints on sin(2β + γ) were investigated. The time evolution of decays was sensitive to γ because of interference between the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) favored decay and doubly CKM-suppressed decay. The consistency of data was computed with given value of sin(2β + γ) by counting fraction of simulated experiments for which χ 2(sin(2β + γ))-χmin2 was smaller. The lower limit on |sin(2β + γ)| was observed at 68% confidence level which drops from 0.69 to 0.60.Study of B± → J/Ψπ± and B± → J/ΨK± decays: Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions and search for direct CP violation
Physical Review Letters 92:24 (2004)
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Decays that measure the ratio of branching fractions and searches for direct CP violations were analyzed. The decays were collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B factory at SLAC. The fitted asymmetries for the small observed differences in the tracking efficiency were corrected between positively and negatively charged track. It was found that the uncertainty in the fixed parameters of the PDFs, determined by fits to stimulated or nonsignal data sets, contributed 0.001 to the systematic errors.Measurement of the branching fractions and CP asymmetry of B- → D(CP) 0CPK- decays with the BABAR detector
Physical Review Letters 92:20 (2004)