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We report preliminary measurements of the exclusive charmless semileptonic branching fractions of the B+ --> eta l+ nu and B+ --> eta' l+ nu decays. These measurements are based on 316 fb-1 of data collected at the Y(4S) resonance by the…
We present branching fraction and CP asymmetry results for a variety of B decays based on up to 56.4 fb^-1 collected by the BaBar experiment running near the Upsilon(4S) resonance at the PEP-II e+e- B-factory.
Assuming the dominance of the spin-spin interaction in a diquark, we point out that the mass difference in the beauty sector M(Z_b^prime) - M(Z_b) scales with quark masses as expected in QCD, with respect to the corresponding mass…
We report improved measurements of branching fractions for charmless hadronic two-body {\it B} meson decays containing an $\omega$ meson in the final state. The results are based on a data sample of 78 fb$^{-1}$ collected on the…
Recent data on e(-)+e(+)-->b+anti-b by the BABAR Collaboration [B. Aubert et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 012001 (2009), arXiv:0809.4120] in the energy range delimited by the B+anti-B and Lambda(b)(+)+Lambda(b)(-) thresholds are analyzed in a…
We present measurements of partial branching fractions of $B \rightarrow K^+ X$, $B \rightarrow K^0 X$, and $B \rightarrow \pi^+ X$, where $X$ denotes any accessible final state above the endpoint for B decays to charmed mesons,…
New precise measurements of $D_s^+$ and $D_s^{*+}$ meson production from $B$ mesons and $q\bar q$ continuum events near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance are presented in this paper. Using the BABAR data recorded in 1999 and 2000 of 20.8…
We present branching fraction measurements of charged and neutral B decays to Dpi-, D*pi- and D**pi- with a missing mass method, based on a sample of 231 million Y(4S)-->BBar pairs collected by the BaBar detector at the PEP-II e+e-…
Using a data sample collected with the CLEO II detector at CESR, we have searched for dipion transitions between pairs of $\Upsilon$ resonances at energies near the $\Upsilon(4S)$. We obtain upper limits $B(\Upsilon(4S)\to…
Two recent OPAL publications dealing with spectroscopy of heavy-light mesons will be discussed. In the charm sector, a search for a narrow radial excitation of the D*+- is performed. No signal is seen, and an upper limit of the production…
Using data collected by the CLEO II detector at the center-of-mass energy on or near the Upsilon(4S) resonance, we have determined the 90% confidence level upper limit B(Bbar --> Lambda_c^+ e- X)/B(Bbar --> Lambda_c^+ X, Lambdabar_c^- X) <…
With a sample of 232x10^6 Upsilon(4S) --> BBbar events collected with the BaBar detector, we study the decay B+ --> p pbar K+ excluding charmonium decays to ppbar. We measure a branching fraction Br(B+ --> p pbar…
Theoretical predictions for B decay rates are rewritten in terms of the Upsilon meson mass instead of the b quark mass, using a modified perturbation expansion. The theoretical consistency is shown both at low and high orders. This method…
Using 383 million BBbar pairs from the BaBar data sample, we report results for branching fractions of six charged B-meson decay modes, where a charged kaon recoils against a charmless resonance decaying to KKbar* or etapipi final states…
We present branching fraction and CP asymmetry results for a variety of charmless B decays based on up to 124 fb^-1 collected by the BABAR experiment running near the Upsilon(4S) resonance at the PEP-II e+e- B-factory.
The recoil momentum spectrum from the decay $B^+ \to K^+ +\mathrm{anything}$ has recently been measured by the BaBar collaboration. The spectrum has a peak with invariant mass near the mass of the $X(3872)$ meson. The preliminary…
We report on recent measurements, from the BaBar and Belle experiments, of B-meson decays to purely hadronic final states that do not contain charm. The studies are based on large samples of BBbar pairs collected at the Upsilon(4S) or…
The B-factories have successfully exploited the unique advantages of the \Upsilon(4S) resonance to study many aspects of the B_d and B_u mesons. The \Upsilon(10860) resonance, also known as \Upsilon(5S), is above mass threshold for the B_s…
We report improved measurements of branching fractions for $B\to K\pi$, $\pi^+\pi^-$, $\pi^+\pi^0$ and $K\bar{K}$ decays based on a data sample of 85.0 million $B\bar{B}$ pairs collected at the $\Upsilon (4S)$ resonance with the Belle…
We report the first measurement of the absolute branching fraction e^+e^- --> B0B0bar at the Upsilon(4S) resonance using data collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e^+e^- storage ring. The analysis is performed…