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We report on a study of the relative rates of B meson decays into psi(2S) and J/psi mesons using 1.3 fb^-1 of pbar p collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV recorded by the D0 detector operating at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We observe the…
We report an improved measurement of the decay $B^0 \to \pi^0 \pi^0$, using a data sample of 535 $\times 10^6 B\bar{B}$ pairs collected at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric energy $e^+ e^-$…
We search for charmless decays of charged B mesons to the three-body final state K_S^0 K_S^0 pi+. Using a data sample of 423.7 fb^-1 collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector, corresponding to (465.1 +- 5.1)X10^6 BB-bar…
The decay $B^0\to \psi(2S) K^+\pi^-$ is analyzed using $\rm 3~fb^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data collected with the LHCb detector. A model-independent description of the $\psi(2S) \pi$ mass spectrum is obtained, using as input the $K\pi$ mass…
B-meson decays are very useful probes for testing the Standard Model and its various extensions. Leptonic decays of B have very clean signatures in this respect and hence can be very useful testing grounds. In this work we study the effects…
We explore the possibility that the existing data on like-sign dileptons at the $\Upsilon (4S)$ resonance consist of events arising from $B_{d}^0 -\bar B_{d}^0$ mixing and also from $\Delta B = - \Delta Q$ transitions. The consequences of…
The large data sample recorded with the Belle detector at the Y(5S) energy provides a unique opportunity to study the poorly-known Bs0 meson. Several analyses, made with a data sample representing an integrated luminosity of 23.6 /fb, are…
We study the heavy-light mesons within basis light-front quantization. The resulting mass spectra of $D$, $D_s$, $B$, and $B_s$ agree reasonably well with experiments. We also predict states which could be measured in the near future. In…
We measure the branching fractions of the psi(2S) meson to the leptonic final states e+e- and mu+mu- relative to that for psi(2S)-->J/psi pi+pi-. The method uses psi(2S) mesons produced in the decay of B mesons at the Upsilon(4S) resonance…
The exclusive (B -> K_2 l^+ l^-) decay is studied using the most general, model independent four-fermion interaction. The sensitivity of the ratio of the decay widths when K_2 meson is longitudinally and transversally polarized, the…
We present a 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 $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance and…
Using fully reconstructed $B_{s}$ mesons, we measure exclusive branching fractions for the decays $B_s \to D_s^{(*)+}D_s^{(*)-}$. The results are ${\cal B}(B^0_s\ra D^+_s D^-_s)=(0.58\,^{+0.11}_{-0.09}\,\pm 0.13)%$, ${\cal B}(B^0_s\ra…
We point out that time dependent study of four decay modes $B^0(t)\to \Dbar K_S$, $B^0(t)\to D K_S$ $\Bbar^0(t)\to \Dbar K_S$, and $\Bbar^0(t)\to D K_S$ allows us to measure $\sin(\phi_1-\phi_2)$ - contrary to previously obtained result…
We report results of proper-time evolution analyses of B decays at Belle, based on a 29.1/fb data sample recorded at the Upsilon (4S) resonance. These results include measurements of sin2phi_1, the lifetime of B-mesons, and the…
We discuss various tests of the factorization hypothesis making use of the close relationship between semi-leptonic and factorized nonleptonic decay amplitudes. It is pointed out that factorization leads to truely model-independent…
Three different strategies to extract the weak mixing phase phi_s of the Bs system using B--> VV decays (Bs--> K* anti-K*, Bs--> phi anti-K* and Bs--> phi phi) are discussed. Those penguin-mediated decays are computed in the framework of a…
Semileptonic decays of B mesons may be used in many different ways to probe the CKM matrix. Presented here are several recent results from the CLEO II experiment, all involving the analysis or utilization of semileptonic B decays.
The process e^+e^- ->mu^+mu^- has been studied with SND detector at VEPP-2M e^+e^- collider in the vicinity of phi(1020) resonance. The product of branching ratios of phi meson into leptons \sqrt{B(phi->mu^+mu^-) B(phi->…
We measure the branching fractions and $CP$ asymmetries for the decays $B^{0}\to \bar{D}^{0}\pi^{0}$ and $B^{+}\to \bar{D}^{0}\pi^{+}$, using a data sample of $772\times 10^{6}$ $B\bar{B}$ pairs collected at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance…
A number of recent experimental measurements suggest the possibility of a breakdown of lepton ($\ell$) universality in exclusive $b \to c \ell \nu_\ell$ semileptonic meson decays. We analyze the full differential decay rates for several…