Measurement of the Branching Fractions for the Exclusive Decays of $B^0$ and $B^+ \to \bar{D}^{}D^{}K

We report the observation of 823+/-57 B^0 and 970+/-65 B^+ decays to doubly charmed final states Dbar^(*)D^(*)K, where Dbar^(*) and D^(*) are fully reconstructed and K is either a K+/- or a K^0. We use a sample of 82.3+/- 0.9 million BBbar events collected between 1999 and 2002 with the babar detect...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review. D 2003, Vol.68
Hauptverfasser: Aubert, B., Abe, T., Abrams, G. S., Adye, T., Ahmed, Mohamed-Salem, Alam, M. S., Albert, J., Aleksan, R., Allison, J., Altenburg, D., Angelini, C., Anulli, F., Aspinwall, M. L., Aston, D., Baak, G., Back, J. J., Bailey, M., Baldini-Ferroli, R., Band, H. R., Banerjee, Sw, Barate, R., Barillari, T., Barlow, N. R., Barlow, R. J., Bartoldus, R., Batignani, G., Bauer, J. M., Bellini, F., Benayoun, M., Berger, N., Beringer, J., Bernard, D., Berryhill, J. W., Best, D., Bettarini, S., Bettoni, D., Bevan, A. J., Bhimji, W., Biagini, M. E., Bianchi, F., Bionta, R. M., Blanc, F., Blaylock, G., Blinov, V. E., Bloom, P., Bondioli, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Borean, C., Borgland, A. W., Bosisio, L., Boutigny, D., Bowerman, D. A., Boyarski, A. M., Boyd, J. T., Bozzi, C., Brandt, T., Brau, J. E., Brau, T., Breon, A. B., Briand, H., Brigljevic, V., Brochard, F., Brose, J., Brown, C. L., Brown, C. M., Brown, D. N., Bucci, F., Buchanan, C., Buchmüller, O. L., Bugg, W., Bukin, A. D., Burchat, P. R., Button-Shafer, J., Buzzo, A., Bóna, M., Cahn, R. N., Calabrese, R., Calcaterra, A., Calderini, G., Campagnari, C., Carpinelli, M., Cartaro, C., Cavallo, N., Cavoto, G., Chao, M., Charles, E., Chauveau, J., Chen, E., Chen, J. C., Cheng, C. H., Chevalier, N., Christ, S., Clark, P. J., Cochran, J., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Colberg, T., Colecchia, F., Contri, R., Convery, M. R., Cottingham, W. N.
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Zusammenfassung:We report the observation of 823+/-57 B^0 and 970+/-65 B^+ decays to doubly charmed final states Dbar^(*)D^(*)K, where Dbar^(*) and D^(*) are fully reconstructed and K is either a K+/- or a K^0. We use a sample of 82.3+/- 0.9 million BBbar events collected between 1999 and 2002 with the babar detector at the PEP-II storage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The 22 possible B decays to Dbar^(*)D^(*)K are reconstructed exclusively and the corresponding branching fractions or limits are determined. The branching fractions of the B^0 and of the B^+ to Dbar^(*)D^(*)K$ are found to be BR(B^0 --> Dbar^(*) D^(*) K) = (4.3 +/- 0.3 stat +/- 0.6 syst)%, BR(B^+ --> Dbar^(*) D^(*) K) = (3.5 +/- 0.3 stat +/- 0.5 syst)%. A search for decays to orbitally excited $D_s$ states, B --> Dbar^(*) D_{sJ}^{+} (D_{sJ}^{+} --> D^(*)0K^+) is also performed.
ISSN:2470-0010
2470-0029
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.68.092001