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Observation of the Decay B^{-} \rightarrow D_{s}^{(*)+} K^{-} \ell^{-} \bar{\nu}_{\ell}

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2015-03-17 v3

Abstract

We report the observation of the decay BDs()+KνˉB^{-} \rightarrow D^{(*)+}_{s} K^{-} \ell^{-} \bar{\nu}_{\ell} based on 342 \mathrm {\,fb}^{-1}} of data collected at the \Y4S\Y4S resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+ee^{+}e^{-} storage rings at SLAC. A simultaneous fit to three Ds+D^{+}_{s} decay chains is performed to extract the signal yield from measurements of the squared missing mass in the B meson decay. We observe the decay BDs()+KνˉB^{-} \rightarrow D^{(*)+}_{s} K^{-} \ell^{-} \bar{\nu}_{\ell} with a significance greater than five standard deviations (including systematic uncertainties) and measure its branching fraction to be \BR(BDs()+Kνˉ)=[6.131.03+1.04(stat.)±0.43(syst.)±0.51(\BR(Ds))]×104\BR(B^{-} \rightarrow D^{(*)+}_{s} K^{-} \ell^{-} \bar{\nu}_{\ell}) = [6.13^{+1.04}_{-1.03}(\mathrm{stat.})\pm0.43(\mathrm{syst.}) \pm 0.51(\BR(D_{s}))]\times10^{-4}, where the last error reflects the limited knowledge of the DsD_{s} branching fractions.

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@article{arxiv.1012.4158,
  title  = {Observation of the Decay B^{-} \rightarrow D_{s}^{(*)+} K^{-} \ell^{-} \bar{\nu}_{\ell}},
  author = {The BABAR Collaboration and P. del Amo Sanchez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.4158},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures