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Search for the rare decays B → Kl+l- and B → K*l+l-

Physical Review Letters 88:24 (2002) 2418011-2418017

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B Aubert, D Boutigny, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Palano, A Pompili, GP Chen, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, AR Clark, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, JF Kral, C LeClerc, ME Levi, G Lynch, PJ Oddone, M Pripstein, NA Roe, A Romosan, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, DJ Knowles, SW O'Neale, RC Penny, AT Watson, NK Watson, T Deppermann, K Goetzen, H Koch, M Kunze, B Lewandowski, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, NR Barlow, W Bhimji, N Chevalier, PJ Clark, WN Cottingham, B Foster, C Mackay, FF Wilson, K Abe, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, S Jolly, AK McKemey, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, DA Bukin, AR Buzykaev, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, AA Korol, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, VI Telnov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Chao, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, S McMahon, DP Stoker, K Arisaka, C Buchanan, S Chun, DB MacFarlane, S Prell

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The results from a search for the flavor-changing neutral current decays were presented. The data sample was collected with the BABAR detector at PEP-II B factory. The signal efficiency of the decays were determined from phase-space Monte Carlo simulations. The Bele central value of 90% C.L. was obtained and was found close to standard model predictions for these branching fractions.
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Search for T and CP violation in B0-B̄0 mixing with inclusive dilepton events

Physical Review Letters 88:23 (2002) 2318011-2318017

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B Aubert, D Boutigny, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, A Palano, A Pompili, GP Chen, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, JF Kral, C LeClerc, ME Levi, G Lynch, PJ Oddone, M Pripstein, NA Roe, A Romosan, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, DJ Knowles, SW O'Neale, RC Penny, AT Watson, NK Watson, T Deppermann, K Goetzen, H Koch, M Kunze, B Lewandowski, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, NR Barlow, W Bhimji, N Chevalier, PJ Clark, WN Cottingham, B Foster, C Mackay, FF Wilson, K Abe, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, S Jolly, AK McKemey, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, DA Bukin, AR Buzykaev, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, AA Korol, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, VI Telnov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Chao, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, S McMahon, DP Stoker, K Arisaka, C Buchanan, S Chun, DB MacFarlane, S Prell

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The results of a search for T and CP violation in B0-B̄0 mixing were presented. A same-sign dilepton asymmetry was obtained which was used to to extract the modulus of the ratio of complex mixing parameters. The background dilution correction was measured using data from full dilepton sample. The uncertainity on the ratio resulted in a ±3% multiplicative error.
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Measurement of B0-B̄0 flavor oscillations in hadronic B0 decays

Physical Review Letters 88:22 (2002)

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B Aubert, D Boutigny, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Palano, A Pompili, GP Chen, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, AR Clark, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, JF Kral, C LeClerc, ME Levi, G Lynch, PJ Oddone, M Pripstein, NA Roe, A Romosan, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, DJ Knowles, SW O'Neale, RC Penny, AT Watson, NK Watson, T Deppermann, K Goetzen, H Koch, M Kunze, B Lewandowski, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, NR Barlow, W Bhimji, N Chevalier, PJ Clark, WN Cottingham, B Foster, C Mackay, FF Wilson, K Abe, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, S Jolly, AK McKemey, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, DA Bukin, AR Buzykaev, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, AA Korol, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, VI Telnov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Chao, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, S McMahon, DP Stoker, K Arisaka, C Buchanan, S Chun, DB MacFarlane, S Prell

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A new technique involving the time-difference distribution of a tagged sample of fully reconstructed neutral B decays was used to determine the B0-B̄0 mixing frequency Δmd. The obtained result is consistent with the current world average and a recent BABAR measurement with a dilepton sample.
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Measurement of the B0-B̄0 oscillation frequency with inclusive dilepton events

Physical Review Letters 88:22 (2002)

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B Aubert, D Boutigny, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Palano, A Pompili, GP Chen, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, AR Clark, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, JF Kral, C LeClerc, ME Levi, G Lynch, PJ Oddone, M Pripstein, NA Roe, A Romosan, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, PG Bright-Thomas, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, DJ Knowles, SW O'Neale, RC Penny, AT Watson, NK Watson, T Deppermann, K Goetzen, H Koch, M Kunze, B Lewandowski, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, NR Barlow, W Bhimji, N Chevalier, PJ Clark, WN Cottingham, B Foster, C Mackay, FF Wilson, K Abe, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, S Jolly, AK McKemey, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, DA Bukin, AR Buzykaev, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, AA Korol, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, VI Telnov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Chao, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, S McMahon, DP Stoker, K Arisaka, C Buchanan, S Chun, DB MacFarlane

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An overview is given on the measurement of the time dependence of B0-B̄0 mixing using data collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric energy e+e- collider operated at or near the Υ(4S) resonance. The result is the single most precise measurements to date and is consistent with a recent BABAR measurement with a fully reconstructed B0 sample, as well as the world average of previous measurements.
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Measurement of Ds+ and Ds*+ production in B meson decays and from continuum e+e- annihilation at √s = 10.6 GeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 65:9 (2002) 911041-911048

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B Aubert, D Boutigny, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Palano, A Pompili, GP Chen, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, AR Clark, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, JF Kral, C LeClerc, ME Levi, G Lynch, PJ Oddone, A Perazzo, M Pripstein, NA Roe, A Romosan, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, PG Bright-Thomas, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, DJ Knowles, SW O'Neale, RC Penny, AT Watson, NK Watson, T Deppermann, K Goetzen, H Koch, M Kunze, B Lewandowski, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, JC Andress, NR Barlow, W Bhimji, N Chevalier, PJ Clark, WN Cottingham, N Dyce, B Foster, C Mackay, D Wallom, FF Wilson, K Abe, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, S Jolly, AK McKemey, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, DA Bukin, AR Buzykaev, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, AA Korol, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, AA Salnikov, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, VI Telnov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Chao, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, S McMahon, DP Stoker

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New measurements of Ds+ and Ds*+ meson production rates from B decays and from qq̄ continuum events near the Y(4S) resonance are presented. Using 20.8 fb-1 of data on the Y(4S) resonance and 2.6 fb-1 off-resonance, we find the inclusive branching fractions B(B→Ds+ X)=(10.93±0.19±0.58±2.73)% and B(B→Ds*+X)=(7.9±0.8±0.7 ±2.0)%, where the first error is statistical, the second is systematic, and the third is due to the Ds+→φπ+ branching fraction uncertainty. The production cross sections σ(e+e- →Ds+X) × B(Ds+→φπ+)=7.55±0.20 ±0.34 pb and σ(e+e-→Ds *±X) × B(Ds+→φπ+) = 5.8±0.7±0.5 pb are measured at center-of-mass energies about 40 MeV below the Y(4S) mass. The branching fractions ΣB(B→Ds(*)+ D̄(*))=(5.07±0.14±0.30±1.27)% and ∑B(B→Ds*+D̄(*)) =(4.1±0.2±0.4±1.0)% are determined from the Ds(*)+ momentum spectra. The mass difference m(Ds+)-m(D+)=98.4±0.1 ±0.3 MeV/c2 is also measured.
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