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Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions of the γ(4S) to charged and neutral B mesons

Physical Review D 66:5 (2002)

Authors:

SB Athar, P Avery, H Stoeck, J Yelton, G Brandenburg, A Ershov, DYJ Kim, R Wilson, K Benslama, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GD Gollin, RM Hans, I Karliner, N Lowrey, MA Marsh, C Plager, C Sedlack, M Selen, JJ Thaler, J Williams, KW Edwards, R Ammar, D Besson, X Zhao, S Anderson, VV Frolov, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, SZ Li, R Poling, A Smith, CJ Stepaniak, J Urheim, S Ahmed, MS Alam, L Jian, M Saleem, F Wappler, E Eckhart, KK Gan, C Gwon, T Hart, K Honscheid, D Hufnagel, H Kagan, R Kass, TK Pedlar, JB Thayer, E von Toerne, T Wilksen, MM Zoeller, H Muramatsu, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, SA Dytman, S Nam, V Savinov, S Chen, JW Hinson, J Lee, DH Miller, V Pavlunin, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, D Cronin-Hennessy, AL Lyon, CS Park, W Park, EH Thorndike, TE Coan, YS Gao, F Liu, Y Maravin, I Narsky, R Stroynowski, J Ye, M Artuso, C Boulahouache, K Bukin, E Dambasuren, R Mountain, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, AH Mahmood, SE Csorna, I Danko, Z Xu, R Godang, K Kinoshita, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, S McGee, A Bornheim, E Lipeles, SP Pappas, A Shapiro

Abstract:

The ratio of charged and neutral B meson production at the γ(4S), f+-/f00, is measured through the decays B̄→D*ℓ-ν̄ℓ, reconstructed using a partial reconstruction method where the D* is detected only through a pion daughter from the decay D*→Dπ. Using data collected by the CLEO II detector, the charged and neutral B decays are measured in such a way that their ratio is independent of the decay model, limited mainly by the uncertainty in the relative efficiency for detecting neutral and charged pions. This measurement yields the ratio of production fractions times the ratio of semileptonic branching fractions, f+-b+/f 00b0. Assuming that b+/b0 is equal to the lifetime ratio τ+/τ0 and using the world average value of τ+/τ0 as input, we obtain f +-/f00= 1.058±0.084±0.136. © 2002 The American Physical Society.
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Measurement of Β(B- → D0π-) and Β(B- → D+π-) and isospin analysis of B̄ → Dπ decays

Physical Review D 66:3 (2002)

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S Ahmed, MS Alam, L Jian, M Saleem, F Wappler, E Eckhart, KK Gan, C Gwon, T Hart, K Honscheid, D Hufnagel, H Kagan, R Kass, TK Pedlar, JB Thayer, E von Toerne, T Wilksen, MM Zoeller, H Muramatsu, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, SA Dytman, JA Mueller, S Nam, V Savinov, S Chen, JW Hinson, J Lee, DH Miller, V Pavlunin, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, D Cronin-Hennessy, AL Lyon, CS Park, W Park, EH Thorndike, TE Coan, YS Gao, F Liu, Y Maravin, R Stroynowski, M Artuso, C Boulahouache, K Bukin, E Dambasuren, K Khroustalev, R Mountain, R Nandakumar, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, AH Mahmood, SE Csorna, I Danko, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, S McGee, A Bornheim, E Lipeles, SP Pappas, A Shapiro, WM Sun, AJ Weinstein, R Mahapatra, RA Briere, GP Chen, T Ferguson, G Tatishvili, H Vogel, NE Adam, JP Alexander, K Berkelman, V Boisvert, DG Cassel, PS Drell, JE Duboscq, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, L Hsu, CD Jones, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, A Magerkurth, H Mahlke-Krüger, TO Meyer, NB Mistry, E Nordberg, JR Patterson, D Peterson, J Pivarski, D Riley, AJ Sadoff

Abstract:

We present new measurements of branching fractions for the color-favored decays B+ → D0π- and B̄0 → D+π-. Using 9.67×106 BB̄ pairs collected with the CLEO detector, we obtain the branching fractions Β(B- → D0π - = (49.7±1.2±2.9±2.2)×104 and Β(B̄0 → D+π-) = (26.8±1.2±2.4±1.2)×10-4. The first error is statistical, the second is systematic, and the third is due to the experimental uncertainty on the production ratio of charged and neutral B mesons in Y(4S) decays. These results, together with the current world average for the color-suppressed branching fraction Β(B̄+ → D 0π0), are used to determine the cosine of the strong phase difference δI between the I = 1/2 and I=3/2 isospin amplitudes. We find cos δI = 0.863 -0.023-0.035-0.030+0.024+0.036+0.038, and obtain a 90% confidence interval of 16.5° < δI < 38.1°. This nonzero value of δI suggests the presence of final state interactions in the D π system. © 2002 The American Physical Society.
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Search for neutrinoless τ decays involving the KS 0 meson

Physical Review D 66:7 (2002)

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S Chen, JW Hinson, J Lee, DH Miller, V Pavlunin, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, D Cronin-Hennessy, AL Lyon, CS Park, W Park, EH Thorndike, TE Coan, YS Gao, F Liu, Y Maravin, R Stroynowski, M Artuso, C Boulahouache, K Bukin, E Dambasuren, K Khroustalev, R Mountain, R Nandakumar, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, AH Mahmood, SE Csorna, I Danko, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, S McGee, A Bornheim, E Lipeles, SP Pappas, A Shapiro, WM Sun, AJ Weinstein, R Mahapatra, RA Briere, GP Chen, T Ferguson, G Tatishvili, H Vogel, NE Adam, JP Alexander, K Berkelman, V Boisvert, DG Cassel, PS Drell, JE Duboscq, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, RS Galik, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, L Hsu, CD Jones, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, A Magerkurth, H Mahlke-Krüger, TO Meyer, NB Mistry, E Nordberg, JR Patterson, D Peterson, J Pivarski, D Riley, AJ Sadoff, H Schwarthoff, MR Shepherd, JG Thayer, D Urner, G Viehhauser, A Warburton, M Weinberger, SB Athar, P Avery, L Breva-Newell, V Potlia, H Stoeck, J Yelton, G Brandenburg, DYJ Kim, R Wilson, K Benslama, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GD Gollin, RM Hans, I Karliner, N Lowrey, C Plager

Abstract:

We have searched for lepton flavor violating decays of the τ lepton with one or two KS0 mesons in the final state. The data used in the search were collected with the CLEO II and II.V detectors at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 13.9 fb-1 at the Y (4S) resonance. No evidence for signals were found; therefore, we have set 90% confidence level (C.L.) upper limits on the branching fractions Β(τ- → e- K S0)<9.1×10-7, Β(τ- →μ- KS0)<9.5×10-7, Β(τ- → e-KS0K S0) <2.2× 10-6, and Β(τ- → μ- KS0K S0)<3.4×10-6. These represent significantly improved upper limits on the two-body decays and first upper limits on the three-body decays. © 2002 The American Physical Society.
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Search for radiative b-hadron decays in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.8 TeV

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 66:11 (2002)

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D Acosta, T Affolder, H Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, S Bailey, P De Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, J Berryhill, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, N Bruner, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, W Caskey, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov-Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, JY Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, M Coca, AP Colijn, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D’Auria

Abstract:

We have performed a search for radiative 6-hadron decays using events produced in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.8TeV and collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. The decays we considered were B0̅d→K*0(→K-π+γ, B0̅s→φ(→K+K-)γ,0b→γ(→p03C0-)γ), and their charge conjugates. Two independent methods to identify photons from such decays were employed. In the first method, the photon was detected in the electromagnetic calorimeter. In the second method, the photon was identified by an electron-positron pair produced through the external photon conversion before the tracking detector volume. By combining the two methods we obtain upper limits on the branching fractions for the B0̅d, B0̅s and γ,0b radiative decays which, at the 95% confidence level, are found to be B(B0̅d→K*0γ<1.4×-4,B(B0̅d→φγ)<1.6×-4,and (γ,0b→γγ)<1.9×-3.
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The Hard Truth about Some "Soft" X-ray Transients

(2002)

Authors:

RM Bandyopadhyay, C Brocksopp, RP Fender

Abstract:

We have accumulated multiwavelength lightcurves for eight black hole X-ray binaries which have been observed to enter a supposed ``soft X-ray transient'' outburst, but which in fact remained in the low/hard state throughout the outburst. Comparison of the lightcurve morphologies, spectral behaviour, properties of the QPOs and the radio jet provides the first study of such objects as a subclass of X-ray transients (XRTs). However, rather than assuming that these hard state XRTs are different from ``canonical'' soft XRTs, we prefer to consider the possibility that a new analysis of both soft and hard state XRTs in a spectral context will provide a model capable of explaining the outburst mechanisms for the majority of black hole X-ray binaries.
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