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Measurement of the branching fractions of (B)over-bar -> D**l(-)(v)over-bar(l) decays in events tagged by a fully reconstructed B meson

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C. and Bianchi, F. and Gamba, D. and Pelliccioni, M. and Bomben, M. and Bosisio, L. and Cartaro, C. and Della Ricca, G. and Lanceri, L. and Vitale, L. and Azzolini, V. and Lopez-March, N. and Martinez-Vidal, F. and Milanes, D. A. and Oyanguren, A. and Albert, J. and Banerjee, Sw. and Bhuyan, B. and Choi, H. H. F. and Hamano, K. and Kowalewski, R. and Lewczuk, M. J. and Nugent, I. M. and Roney, J. M. and Sobie, R. J. and Gershon, T. J. and Harrison, P. F. and Ilic, J. and Latham, T. E. and Mohanty, G. B. and Band, H. R. and Chen, X. and Dasu, S. and Flood, K. T. and Pan, Y. and Pierini, M. and Prepost, R. and Vuosalo, C. O. and Wu, L. S. (2008) Measurement of the branching fractions of (B)over-bar -> D**l(-)(v)over-bar(l) decays in events tagged by a fully reconstructed B meson. Physical Review Letters, 101 (26). Art. No. 261802. ISSN 0031-9007. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.261802. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20090702-143330121

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Abstract

We report a measurement of the branching fractions of D**- decays based on 417 fb-1 of data collected at the (4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- storage rings. Events are selected by fully reconstructing one of the B mesons in a hadronic decay mode. A fit to the invariant mass differences m(D(*))-m(D(*)) is performed to extract the signal yields of the different D** states. We observe the D**- decay modes corresponding to the four D** states predicted by heavy quark symmetry with a significance greater than 5 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties.


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Kolomensky, Yu G.0000-0001-8496-9975
Martin, E. C.0000-0002-0618-5128
Wang, L.0000-0002-9803-166X
Cheng, C. H.0000-0002-8382-0447
Hitlin, D. G.0000-0003-4028-6982
Porter, F. C.0000-0003-1948-8889
Arnaud, N.0000-0001-6589-8673
Dubois-Felsmann, G. P.0000-0003-1598-6979
Drummond, B. W.0000-0001-7589-5484
Bianchi, F.0000-0003-2996-3604
Pierini, M.0000-0003-1939-4268
Additional Information:©2008 American Physical Society. We are grateful for the excellent luminosity and machine conditions provided by our PEP-II colleagues, and for the substantial dedicated effort from the computing organizations that support BABAR. The collaborating institutions wish to thank SLAC for its support and kind hospitality. This work is supported by DOE and NSF (USA), NSERC (Canada), CEA and CNRS-IN2P3 (France), BMBF and DFG (Germany), INFN (Italy), FOM (The Netherlands), NFR (Norway), MIST (Russia), MEC (Spain), and STFC (United Kingdom). Individuals have received support from the Marie Curie EIF (European Union) and the A. P. Sloan Foundation.
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique -I N2P3 (France)UNSPECIFIED
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Germany)UNSPECIFIED
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)UNSPECIFIED
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Research Council of NorwayUNSPECIFIED
Budker Institute of Nuclear PhysicsUNSPECIFIED
Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain)UNSPECIFIED
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European UnionUNSPECIFIED
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Issue or Number:26
Classification Code:PACS numbers: 13.20.He, 12.38.Qk, 14.40.Nd
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.261802
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