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Measurement of branching fractions and charge asymmetries for exclusive B decays to charmonium

Physical Review Letters 94:14 (2005)

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B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, F Couderc, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, V Poireau, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, E Grauges-Pous, A Palano, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, E Charles, CT Day, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, G Lynch, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, MT Ronan, WA Wenzel, M Barrett, KE Ford, TJ Harrison, AJ Hart, CM Hawkes, SE Morgan, AT Watson, M Fritsch, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, T Schroeder, M Steinke, JT Boyd, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, TE Latham, FF Wilson, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, NS Knecht, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, A Khan, P Kyberd, L Teodorescu, AE Blinov, VE Blinov, VP Druzhinin, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bruinsma, M Chao, I Eschrich, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen, W Roethel, DP Stoker, C Buchanan, BL Hartfiel, AJR Weinstein, SD Foulkes

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We report measurements of branching fractions and charge asymmetries of exclusive decays of neutral and charged B mesons into two-body final states containing a charmonium state and a light strange meson. The charmonium mesons considered are J/ψ, ψ(2S) and χc1, and the light meson is either K or K*. We use a sample of about 124 × 106 BB̄ pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II storage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
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Limit on the B0→ρ0ρ0 branching fraction and implications for the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Angle α

Physical Review Letters 94:13 (2005)

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B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, F Couderc, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, V Poireau, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, E Grauges-Pous, A Palano, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, E Charles, CT Day, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, G Lynch, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, MT Ronan, WA Wenzel, M Barrett, KE Ford, TJ Harrison, AJ Hart, CM Hawkes, SE Morgan, AT Watson, M Fritsch, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, K Peters, T Schroeder, M Steinke, JT Boyd, JP Burke, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, TE Latham, FF Wilson, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, NS Knecht, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, A Khan, P Kyberd, L Teodorescu, AE Blinov, VE Blinov, VP Druzhinin, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bruinsma, M Chao, I Eschrich, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen, W Roethel, DP Stoker, C Buchanan, BL Hartfiel

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We search for the decay B0 → ρ0ρ 0 in a data sample of about 227 × 106 Γ(4S) → B B̄ decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+ e- collider at SLAC. We find no significant signal and set an upper limit of 1.1 × 10-6 at 90% C.L. on the branching fraction. As a result, the uncertainty due to penguin contributions on the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa unitarity angle α measured in B → ρρ decays is decreased to 11° at 68% C.L. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
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Study of the B- → J/ΨK -π+π- decay and measurement of the B - → X(3872)K- branching fraction

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 71:7 (2005) 1-7

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B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, F Couderc, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, A Palano, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, E Charles, CT Day, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, C LeClerc, G Lynch, AM Merchant, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, WA Wenzel, K Ford, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, SE Morgan, AT Watson, M Fritsch, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, M Steinke, JT Boyd, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, TE Latham, FF Wilson, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, NS Knecht, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, A Khan, P Kyberd, L Teodorescu, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, VP Druzhinin, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bruinsma, M Chao, I Eschrich, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen, W Roethel, DP Stoker, C Buchanan, BL Hartfiel, JW Gary, BC Shen

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We study the decay B- → J/ΨK -π+π- using 117×106 BB̄ events collected at the Y(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- asymmetric-energy storage ring. We measure the branching fractions ℬ (B- → J/ΨK -π+π-) = (116±7(stat.) ±9(syst.))×10-5 and ℬ (B- → X(3872)K-) × ℬ (X(3872) → J/Ψπ+π -) = (1.28±0.41)×10-5 and find the mass of the X(3872) to be 3873.4±1.4 MeV/c2. We search for the h c narrow state in the decay B- → hcK -, hc → J/Ψπ+π- and for the decay B- → J/ΨD0π-, with D0 → K-π+. We set the 90% C.L. limits ℬ(B- → hcK-) × ℬ(h c → J/Ψπ+π-)<3. 4×10-6 and ℬ(B- → J/ΨD 0π-)<5.2×10-5. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
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Search for the decay B+ → K+ νν̄

Physical Review Letters 94:10 (2005)

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B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, F Couderc, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, A Palano, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, E Charles, CT Day, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, G Lynch, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, WA Wenzel, M Barrett, KE Ford, TJ Harrison, AJ Hart, CM Hawkes, SE Morgan, AT Watson, M Fritsch, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, M Steinke, JT Boyd, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, TE Latham, FF Wilson, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, NS Knecht, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, A Khan, P Kyberd, L Teodorescu, AE Blinov, VE Blinov, VP Druzhinin, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bruinsma, M Chao, I Eschrich, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen, W Roethel, DP Stoker, C Buchanan, BL Hartfiel, SD Foulkes, JW Gary

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We search for the rare flavor-changing neutral-current decay B+ → K+ νν̄ in a data sample of 82 fb-1 collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II S-factory. Signal events are selected by examining the properties of the system recoiling against either a reconstructed hadronic or semileptonic charged-B decay. Using these two independent samples we obtain a combined limit of ℬ(B+ →K+ νν̄) ≤ 5.2 × 10-5 at the 90% confidence level In addition, by selecting for pions rather than kaons, we obtain a limit of ℬ(B+ → π+ νν̄) < 1.0 × 10-4 using only the hadronic B reconstruction method. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
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Measurement of the B̄0 → D *+ℓ-ν̄ℓ decay rate and

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 71:5 (2005) 1-8

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B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, F Couderc, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, A Palano, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, E Charles, CT Day, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, G Lynch, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, WA Wenzel, M Barrett, KE Ford, TJ Harrison, AJ Hart, CM Hawkes, SE Morgan, AT Watson, M Fritsch, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, M Steinke, JT Boyd, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, TE Latham, FF Wilson, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, NS Knecht, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, A Khan, P Kyberd, L Teodorescu, VE Blinov, VP Druzhinin, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bruinsma, M Chao, I Eschrich, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen, W Roethel, DP Stoker, C Buchanan, BL Hartfiel, SD Foulkes, JW Gary, BC Shen

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We present a measurement of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element |Vcb| based on a sample of about 53 700 B̄0 → D*+ℓ-ν̄ℓ decays observed by the BABAR detector. We obtain the branching fraction averaged over ℓ = e, μ, B(B̄0 → D*+ℓ -ν̄ℓ) = (4.90 ± 0.07(stat.) -0.35+0.36(syst.))%. We measure the differential decay rate as a function of w, the relativistic boost γ of the D*+ in the B̄0 rest frame. By extrapolating dΓ/dw to the kinematic limit w → 1, we extract the product of |V cb| and the axial form factor A1(w = 1). We combine this measurement with a lattice QCD calculation of A1(w = 1) to determine |Vcb) = (38.7 ± 0.3(stat.) ± 1.7(syst.) -1.3+1.5(theory)) × 10-3. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
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