Measurement of the relative B- -> D-0/D*(0)/D**(0)mu(-)(nu)over-bar(mu) branching fractions using B- mesons from <(B)over bar >(S2)*(0) decays
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Journal Article
Abstract
The decay of the narrow resonance ¯B*0s2→B−K+ can be used to determine the B− momentum in partially reconstructed decays without any assumptions on the decay products of the B− meson. This technique is employed for the first time to distinguish contributions from D0, D*0, and higher-mass charmed states (D**0) in semileptonic B− decays by using the missing-mass distribution. The measurement is performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb−1 collected with the LHCb detector in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The resulting branching fractions relative to the inclusive B−→D0Xμ−¯νμ are fD0=B(B−→D0μ−¯νμ)/B(B−→D0Xμ−¯νμ)=0.25±0.06,fD**0=B(B−→(D**0→D0X)μ−¯νμ)/B(B−→D0Xμ−¯νμ)=0.21±0.07, with fD*0=1−fD0−fD**0 making up the remainder.
Date Issued
2019-05-31
Date Acceptance
2019-05-01
Citation
Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2019, 99 (9)
ISSN
1550-2368
Publisher
American Physical Society
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume
99
Issue
9
Copyright Statement
© 2019 CERN, for the LHCb Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
MONTE-CARLO
Publication Status
Published
OA Location
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.092009
Article Number
ARTN 092009