Evidence for B semileptonic decays into the charmed baryon Lambda_c+
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2008-08-04 v1
Abstract
We present the first evidence for B semileptonic decays into the charmed baryon Lambda_c+ based on 420 fb-1 of data collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- storage rings. Events are tagged by fully reconstructing one of the B mesons in a hadronic decay mode. We measure the relative branching fraction BF(Bbar -> Lambda_c+ X l- nubar_l)/BF(Bbar -> Lambda_c+/Lambda_c- X) = (3.2 +/- 0.9_stat +/- 0.9_syst)%. The significance of the signal including the systematic uncertainty is 4.9 standard deviations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0808.0011,
title = {Evidence for B semileptonic decays into the charmed baryon Lambda_c+},
author = {The BABAR Collaboration and B. Aubert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.0011},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
16 pages, 6 postscript figures, submitted to ICHEP 2008