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Production and decay of Xic0 at BABAR

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2010-03-19 v2

Abstract

Using 116.1 fb^-1 of data collected by the BABAR detector, we present an analysis of Xic0 production in B decays and from the ccbar continuum, with the Xic0 decaying into Omega- K+ and Xi- pi+ final states. We measure the ratio of branching fractions B(Xic0 -> Omega- K+)/B(Xic0 -> Xi- pi+) to be 0.294 +- 0.018 +- 0.016, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. The Xic0 momentum spectrum is measured on and 40 MeV below the Upsilon(4S) resonance. From these spectra the branching fraction product B(B -> Xic0 X) x B(Xic0 -> Xi- pi+) is measured to be (2.11 +- 0.19 +- 0.25) x 10^-4 and the cross-section product sigma(e+ e- -> Xic0 X) x B(Xic0 -> Xi- pi+) from the continuum is measured to be (388 +- 39 +- 41) fb at a center-of-mass energy of 10.58 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0504014,
  title  = {Production and decay of Xic0 at BABAR},
  author = {B. Aubert and BABAR Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0504014},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 postscript figues, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett