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Inspired by the recent measurement of the ratio of $B_c$ branching fractions to $J/\psi \pi^+$ and $J/\psi \mu^+\nu_{\mu}$ final states at the LHCb detector, we study the semileptonic decays of $B_c$ meson to the S-wave ground and radially…
We present measurements of branching fractions and charge asymmetries in $B$-meson decays to $\rho^+ \pi^{0}$, $\rho^{0}\pi^+$ and $\rho^0\pi^0$. The data sample comprises $89 \times 10^6$ $\Upsilon(4S) \to B\bar{B}$ decays collected with…
We present improved measurements of the branching fractions for the decays B0 --> Ds+pi- and B0-bar --> Ds+K- using a data sample of 657x10^6 BB-bar events collected at the Y(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB…
We present a preliminary measurement of the branching fraction for the decay of the neutral $B$ meson into the final state J/$\psi\pi^+\pi^-$. The data set contains approximately 56 million $B\bar{B}$ pairs produced at the $\Upsilon(4S)$…
I present estimates of the branching fractions in the non-leptonic charmonium two-body decay rates for $B^0\rightarrow \psi(2S)\pi^0$ decay and the same decays of $B^+\rightarrow \psi(2S)\pi^+$, $B^0\rightarrow \psi(2S)K^0$ and…
We present measurements of branching fractions and charge asymmetries for charmless B-meson decays to three-body final states of charged pions and kaons. The analysis uses 81.8 fb^-1 of data collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the…
Decay rates of the B-meson are studied through charmless and strangless transitions into pi, rho, omega and gamma systems. The important features of these modes are their clean signatures. The CLEO II collaboration has recently reported the…
We present a measurement of the branching fraction of the decay B0 --> a1(1260)^{+-} pi^{-+} with a1(1260)^{+-} --> pi^{-+} pi^{+-} pi^{+-}. The data sample consists of 218 million B B-bar pairs collected at the Y(4S) resonance and recorded…
A phenomenological analysis based on the published branching fractions and $CP$ asymmetry observables of the $B\to K\pi$, $B\to\pi\pi$ and $B\to KK$ dataset is performed. The amplitude decomposition by the topological diagrams and the…
The considerable influx of new data on B decays offers opportunities to determine some of the smaller contributions to the decay process, such as suppressed diagrams, and to test the relations between decay amplitudes implied by (broken)…
In this work, we study the semileptonic decay modes $B_s^0\to \pi^+\pi^-\ell^+\ell^-$ and $D_s^+\to \pi^+\pi^-\ell^+ \nu$ in the kinematics region where the $\pi^+\pi^-$ system has a invariant mass in the range $0.5$-$1.3$ GeV. These…
Extending the concept of parton densities onto nonforward matrix elements <p'|O(0,z)|p> of quark and gluon light-cone operators, one can use two types of nonperturbative functions: double distributions (DDs) f(x,\alpha;t), F(x,y;t) and…
We perform an analysis of angular distributions in semileptonic decays of charmed baryons $B_1^{(\prime)}\to B_2^{(\prime)}(\to B_3^{(\prime)}B_4^{(\prime)})\ell^+\nu_{\ell}$, where the $B_1=(\Lambda_c^+,\Xi_c^{(0,+)})$ are the…
I present a recent piece of work on semileptonic $B \to \pi$ decays in which lattice results and kinematical and dispersive constraints are combined to obtain model-independent bounds on the relevant form factors and rates.
We prove a general theorem about equal CP rate differences within pairs of U-spin related charmless $B$ and $B_s$ decays. Large deviations from equalities would be evidence for new physics. Six pairs of decays into two pseudoscalar mesons…
We report on determinations of |Vub| resulting from studies of the branching fraction and q^2 distributions in exclusive semileptonic B decays that proceed via the b->u transition. Our data set consists of the 9.7x10^6 BBbar meson pairs…
We report a study of semileptonic B decays to P-wave D** mesons. Semileptonic decay to D*_2 meson is observed for the first time and its product branching ratio is measured to be Br(B+ -> anti-D*0_2 l+nu) x Br(anti-D*0_2 -> D- pi+) = 0.22…
Motivated by the anomalies present in $b \to u$ and $b \to c$ semileptonic decays, we study the corresponding $B_s \to (K,K^*) \tau \nu$ and $B \to \pi \tau \nu$ decays within an effective field theory formalism. Our analysis is based on a…
We calculate the branching ratio for B -> J/psi + anything, within the color-singlet approximation for J/psi production, but including perturbative QCD corrections beyond the leading logarithm approximation. Such higher order corrections…
The $B_{l4}$ decays offer an independent method for determining the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $\vert V_{ub} \vert$, with a QCD analysis of the underlying $B \to \pi\pi$ form factors serving as a crucial component. We present…