Study of B decays to charmonium states: B -> eta K-c and B -> chi K-c0

Authors
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 Stepaniak, CJ Urheim, J Ahmed, S Alam, MS Athar, SB Jian, L Ling, L Saleem, M Timm, S Wappler, F Anastassov, A Duboscq, JE Eckhart, E 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 Miller, DH Shibata, EI Shipsey, IPJ Pavlunin, V Cronin-Hennessy, D 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 Mahmood, AH 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 Lipeles, E Pappas, SP 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 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
Citation
Kw. Edwards et al., Study of B decays to charmonium states: B -> eta K-c and B -> chi K-c0, PHYS REV L, 86(1), 2001, pp. 30-34
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
86
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Pages
30 - 34
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(20010101)86:1<30:SOBDTC>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
In a sample of 9.66 x 10(6) B(B) over bar pairs collected with the CLEO det ector we make the first observation of B decays to an eta (c) and a kaon. W e measure branching fractions B(B+ --> eta K-c(+)) = (0.69(-0.21)(+0.26) +/ - 0.08 +/- 0.20) x 10(-3) and B(B degrees --> eta K-c degrees) = (1.09(-0.4 2)(+0.55) +/- 0.12 +/- 0.31) x 10(-3), where the first error is statistical , the second is systematic, and the third is from the eta (c) branching fra ction uncertainty. From these we extract the eta (c) decay constant in the factorization approximation, f(eta), = 335 +/- 75 MeV. We also search for B decays to a chi (c0) and a kaon. No evidence for a signal is found and we set 90% C.L. upper limits: B(B+ --> chi K-c0(+)) < 4.8 x 10(-4) and B(B<deg rees> --> chi K-c0 degrees) < 5.0 x 10(-4).