Measurements of the Absolute Branching Fractions of B^±→K^±X_(cc)

Aubert, B. and Albert, J. and Chen, E. and Dubois-Felsmann, G. P. and Dvoretskii, A. and Hitlin, D. G. and Minamora, J. S. and Narsky, I. and Piatenko, T. and Porter, F. C. and Ryd, A. and Samuel, A. (2006) Measurements of the Absolute Branching Fractions of B^±→K^±X_(cc). Physical Review Letters, 96 (5). Art. No. 052002. ISSN 0031-9007. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.052002. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20110215-113111348

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Abstract

We study the two-body decays of B^± mesons to K^± and a charmonium state X_cc in a sample of 210.5 fb^(-1) of data from the BABAR experiment. We perform measurements of absolute branching fractions B(B^±→K^±X_(cc)) using a missing mass technique, and report several new or improved results. In particular, the upper limit B(B^±→K^±X(3872))<3.2×10^(-4) at 90% C.L. and the inferred lower limit B(X(3872)→J/ψπ^+π-)>4.2% will help in understanding the nature of the recently discovered X(3872).

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Author	ORCID
Dubois-Felsmann, G. P.	0000-0003-1598-6979
Hitlin, D. G.	0000-0003-4028-6982
Porter, F. C.	0000-0003-1948-8889

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© 2006 The American Physical Society. Received 27 October 2005; published 8 February 2006. 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), IHEP (China), CEA and CNRS-IN2P3 (France), BMBF and DFG (Germany), INFN (Italy), FOM (The Netherlands), NFR (Norway), MIST (Russia), and PPARC (United Kingdom). Individuals have received support from CONACyT (Mexico), A. P. Sloan Foundation, Research Corporation, and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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Department of Energy (DOE)	UNSPECIFIED
NSF	UNSPECIFIED
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)	UNSPECIFIED
Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) (China)	UNSPECIFIED
Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA) (France)	UNSPECIFIED
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France)	UNSPECIFIED
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) (Germany)	UNSPECIFIED
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (Germany)	UNSPECIFIED
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) (Italy)	UNSPECIFIED
Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) (The Netherlands)	UNSPECIFIED
Research Council of Norway (NFR)	UNSPECIFIED
MIST (Russia)	UNSPECIFIED
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) (UK)	UNSPECIFIED
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) (Mexico)	UNSPECIFIED
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation	UNSPECIFIED
Research Corporation	UNSPECIFIED
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation	UNSPECIFIED

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PACS: 14.40.Gx, 13.25.Hw

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.052002

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Measurements of the Absolute Branching Fractions of B±→K±Xcc̅ B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration) Published 8 February 2006 (7 pages) 052002

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