Study of the decays B-0 -> D(*)+ D(*)- - art. no. 032005

Authors
Lipeles, E Schmidtler, M Shapiro, A Sun, WM Weinstein, AJ Wurthwein, F Jaffe, DE Masek, G Paar, HP Potter, EM Prell, S Sharma, V Asner, DM Eppich, A Hill, TS Morrison, RJ Nelson, HN Briere, RA Behrens, BH Ford, WT Gritsan, A Roy, J Smith, JG Alexander, JP Baker, R Bebek, C Berger, BE Berkelman, K Blanc, F Boisvert, V Cassel, DG Dickson, M Drell, PS Ecklund, KM Ehrlich, R Foland, AD Gaidarev, P Gibbons, L Gittelman, B Gray, SW Hartill, DL Heltsley, BK Hopman, PI Jones, CD Kreinick, DL Lohner, M Magerkurth, A Meyer, TO Mistry, NB Nordberg, E Patterson, JR Peterson, D Riley, D Thayer, JG Thies, PG Valant-Spaight, B Warburton, A Avery, P Prescott, C Rubiera, AI Yelton, J Zheng, J Brandenburg, G Ershov, A Gao, YS Kim, DYJ Wilson, R Browder, TE Li, Y Rodriguez, JL Yamamoto, H Bergfeld, T Eisenstein, BI Ernst, J Gladding, GE Gollin, GD Hans, RM Johnson, E Karliner, I Marsh, MA Palmer, M Plager, C Sedlack, C Selen, M Thaler, JJ Williams, J Edwards, KW Janicek, R Patel, PM Sadoff, AJ Ammar, R Bean, A Besson, D Davis, R Kwak, N Zhao, X Anderson, S Frolov, VV Kubota, Y Lee, SJ Mahapatra, R O'Neill, JJ Poling, R Riehle, T Smith, A Urheim, J Ahmed, S Alam, MS Athar, SB Jian, L Ling, L Mahmood, AH Saleem, M Timm, S Wappler, F Anastassov, A Duboscq, JE Gan, KK Gwon, C Hart, T Honscheid, K Hufnagel, D Kagan, H Kass, R Pedlar, TK Schwarthoff, H Thayer, JB von Toerne, E Zoeller, MM Richichi, SJ Severini, H Skubic, P Undrus, A Chen, S Fast, J Hinson, JW Lee, J Menon, N Miller, DH Shibata, EI Shipsey, IPJ Pavlunin, V Cronin-Hennessy, D Kwon, Y Lyon, AL Thorndike, EH Jessop, CP Marsiske, H Perl, ML Savinov, V Ugolini, D Zhou, X Coan, TE Fadeyev, V Maravin, Y Narsky, I Stroynowski, R Ye, J Wlodek, T Artuso, M Ayad, R Boulahouache, C Bukin, K Dambasuren, E Karamov, S Majumder, G Moneti, GC Mountain, R Schuh, S Skwarnicki, T Stone, S Viehhauser, G Wang, JC Wolf, A Wu, J Kopp, S Csorna, SE Danko, I McLean, KW Marka, S Xu, Z Godang, R Kinoshita, K Lai, IC Schrenk, S Bonvicini, G Cinabro, D McGee, S Perera, LP Zhou, GJ
Citation
E. Lipeles et al., Study of the decays B-0 -> D(*)+ D(*)- - art. no. 032005, PHYS REV D, 6203(3), 2000, pp. 2005
Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
ISSN journal
05562821 → ACNP
Volume
6203
Issue
3
Year of publication
2000
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(20000801)6203:3<2005:SOTDB->2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
The decays B-0--> D*D+*(-), B-0--> D*D-+/-(-/+) and B(-)i --> D+D- are stud ied in 9.7 x 10(6) Y(4S)-->B(B) over bar $ decays accumulated with the CLEO detector. We determine B(B-0--> D*D+*(-)) = (9.9(-3.3)(divided by 4.2)[sta t] +/- 1.2[syst]) x 10(-4) and limit B(B-->D*D+/-*(-/+)) < 6.3 x 10(-4) and B(B-0--> D+D-) < 9.4 x 10(-4) at 90% confidence level (C.L.). We also perf orm the first angular analysis of the B-0--> D*D+*(-) decay and determine t hat the CP-even fraction of the Anal state is greater than 0.11 at 90% C.L. Future measurements of the time dependence of these decays may be useful f or the investigation of CP violation in neutral B meson decays.