Measurement of Branching Fraction Ratios for B+ → D*+D−K+, B+ → D*−D+K+, and B0 → D*−D0K+ Decays
Journal of High Energy Physics 2020
Kārlis Dreimanis, Collaboration LHCb

A measurement of four branching-fraction ratios for three-body decays of B mesons involving two open-charm hadrons in the final state is presented. Run 1 and Run 2 pp collision data are used, recorded by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies 7, 8, and 13 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb−1. The measured branching-fraction ratios are B(B+→D∗+D−K+)B(B+→D¯¯¯¯¯0D0K+)=0.517±0.015±0.013±0.011,B(B+→D∗−D+K+)B(B+→D¯¯¯¯¯0D0K+)=0.577±0.016±0.013±0.013,B(B0→D∗−D0K+)B(B0→D−D0K+)=1.754±0.028±0.016±0.035,B(B+→D∗+D−K+)B(B+→D∗−D+K+)=0.907±0.033±0.014, where the first of the uncertainties is statistical, the second systematic, and the third is due to the uncertainties on the D-meson branching fractions. These are the most accurate measurements of these ratios to date.


Keywords
B physics Branching fraction Flavor physics Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
DOI
10.1007/jhep12(2020)139
Hyperlink
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP12%282020%29139

The LHCb Collaboration, Aaij, R., Abellán Beteta, C., Dreimanis, K. ... [et al.] Measurement of Branching Fraction Ratios for B+ → D*+D−K+, B+ → D*−D+K+, and B0 → D*−D0K+ Decays. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020, Vol. 2020, No. 12, Article number 139. ISSN 1029-8479. Pieejams: doi:10.1007/jhep12(2020)139

Publication language
English (en)
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