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Study of Inclusive B- and Bbar0 Decays to Flavor-Tagged D, D_s and Lambda_c

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2010-03-19 v1

Abstract

We report on a study of inclusive BB^- and Bˉ0\bar{B}^0 meson decays to D0X{D^0 X}, Dˉ0X{\bar{D}^0 X}, D+X{D^+ X}, DX{D^- X}, Ds+X{D_s^+ X}, DsX{D_s^- X}, Λc+X{\Lambda_c^+ X}, ΛˉcX{\bar{\Lambda}_c^- X}, based on a sample of 231 million BBˉB\bar{B} events recorded with the BABAR detector at the Υ(4S)\Upsilon{(4S)} resonance. Events are selected by completely reconstructing one BB and searching for a reconstructed charm particle in the rest of the event. From the measured branching fractions of these decays, we infer the number of charm and anti-charm particles per Bˉ\bar{B} decay, separately for charged and neutral parents. We derive the total charm yield per BB^- decay, nc=1.202±0.023±0.0400.029+0.035n_c^- = 1.202 \pm 0.023\pm 0.040^{+0.035}_{-0.029} , and per Bˉ0\bar{B}^0 decay, nc0=1.193±0.030±0.0340.035+0.044n_c^0 = 1.193 \pm 0.030\pm 0.034^{+0.044}_{-0.035} where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, and the third reflects the charm branching-fraction uncertainties. We also present the charm momentum distributions measured in the Bˉ\bar{B} rest frame.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0606026,
  title  = {Study of Inclusive B- and Bbar0 Decays to Flavor-Tagged D, D_s and Lambda_c},
  author = {The BABAR Collaboration and B. Aubert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0606026},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

16 pages, 24 postscript figues, submitted to PRD