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From a sample of 232 million Upsilon(4S)--> B B-bar events collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B Factory in 1999--2004, we measure the B- --> D0 K*-(892) decay branching fraction using events where the K*- is reconstructed in…

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) rely on detailed simulations of particle collisions to build expectations of what experimental data may look like under different theory modeling assumptions. Petabytes of simulated data are…