Related papers: Hadronic B and D studies at BABAR
The branching fractions of Ds meson decays serve to normalize many measurements of processes involving charm quarks. Using 586 pb^-1 of e+ e- collisions recorded at a center of mass energy of 4.17 GeV, we determine absolute branching…
The $B^0$ meson decay modes $B^0 \to D^{*-} p {\bar p} \pi^+$, $D^{-} p {\bar p} \pi^+$, ${\bar D}^{*0} p {\bar p}$, and ${\bar D}^{0} p {\bar p}$ are studied in a sample of $124\times 10^{6}$ $B{\bar B}$ pairs collected with the $BaBar$…
Recent BaBar results on rare B decays involving flavour-changing neutral currents are presented. New measurements of the CP asymmetries in $b \to s \gamma$ decays are reported as well as $b \to s l^+l^-$ branching ratio measurements.
We present herein the most recent BABAR results on direct CP asymmetry measurements in B -> Xs gamma, on partial branching fraction and CP asymmetry measurements in B -> Xs l+l-, on a search for B -> pi/eta l+l- decays, on a search for…
The study of b-hadrons made possible a great number of benchmark results in flavour physics. In recent years a lot of effort in understanding their dynamics has been done. These studies can represent a possible avenue for the discovery of…
A search for the hadronic decays of the $h_{c}$ meson to the final states $p\bar{p}\pi^{+}\pi^{-}\pi^{0}$, $p\bar{p}\eta$, and $p\bar{p}\pi^0$ via the process $\psi(3686) \to \pi^{0}{h_c}$ is performed using $(4.48\pm0.03)\times10^{8}$…
We present updated measurements of branching fractions and CP-violating asymmetries for neutral B meson decays to two-body final states of charged pions and kaons. The results are obtained from a data sample of about 60 million Y(4S) -->…
We report on a search for the CP asymmetry in the singly Cabibbo-suppressed decays D+ -> KKpi and in the resonant decays D+ -> phipi and D+ -> KstarK based on a data sample of 79.9 fb^-1 recorded by the BABAR detector. We use the…
A review of current experimental results on exclusive hadronic decays of bottom mesons to a single or double charmed final state is presented. We concentrate on branching fraction measurements conducted at $e^+e^-$ colliders at the…
We reconstruct B+/- -> D K+/- decays in a data sample collected by the CDF II detector at the Tevatron collider corresponding to 1 fb-1 of integrated luminosity. We select decay modes where the D meson decays to either K- pi+ (flavor…
Preliminary results from the BABAR experiment on charmless B decays to charged pions or kaons, and the measurement of the B -> J/psi K* decay amplitudes are presented. The data sample, collected at the asymmetric-energy B-factory PEP-II at…
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…
We report recent measurements from LHCb on $B_{(s)}\to D_{(s)}h(h)(h)$ decays using $\sim$35 pb$^{-1}$ of data collected in 2010. In brief, we measure the following ratios of branching fractions: B(B^0-bar --> D^+K^-) / B(B0-bar --> D^+…
We report a measurement of the branching fractions of Bbar -> D** l^- nubar_l decays based on 417 fb-1 of data collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II e+e- storage rings. Events are selected by fully…
I present latest measurements from the B factories of branching fractions for B meson decays to hadronic two- and three-body final states. These include the rate of doubly Cabibbo-suppressed charge states of charmed mesons in two-body…
First measurements of the CP observables from a time-dependent analysis of $\bar{B}^0_s\to D_s^+K^-$ decays are reported. We also present the first observation of the $\bar{B}^0_{(s)}\to D_s^+K^-\pi^+\pi^-$ and $\bar{B}^0_s\to…
Evidence for the hadronic annihilation decay mode $B^{+} \to D_s^{+}\phi$ is found with greater than $3\sigma$ significance. The branching fraction and \CP asymmetry are measured to be \mathcal{B}(B^{+} \to D_s^{+}\phi) &=&…
This work presents the search for the semileptonic baryonic B decay $B^- \rightarrow \Lambda_c^+ \bar{p} \ell^- \bar{\nu}_{\ell}$. The used data comprises the complete BABAR data set of $470 \cdot 10^{6}$ $B\bar{B}$ events, collected at the…
We present preliminary results on the branching fractions $BF(B^0\to D_s^{\ast+} D^{\ast-})$ and $BF(D_s^+\to\phi\pi^+)$, based on a data sample of approximately $124\times10^6$ \BB events collected by the \babar detector at the PEP-II $e^+…
Recent theoretical investigations of two-body hadronic B decays have provided justification for the use of the factorization ansatz to evaluate the B decay matrix elements. Motivated by this, we present simplified formulae for a wide range…