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Flavor-specific inclusive B decays to charm

Physical Review Letters 80:6 (1998) 1150-1155

Authors:

TE Coan, V Fadeyev, I Korolkov, Y Maravin, I Narsky, V Shelkov, J Staeck, R Stroynowski, I Volobouev, J Ye, M Artuso, F Azfar, A Efimov, M Goldberg, D He, S Kopp, GC Moneti, R Mountain, S Schuh, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, G Viehhauser, X Xing, J Bartelt, SE Csorna, V Jain, KW McLean, S Marka, R Godang, K Kinoshita, IC Lai, P Pomianowski, S Schrenk, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, R Greene, LP Perera, GJ Zhou, B Barish, M Chadha, S Chan, G Eigen, JS Miller, C O’grady, M Schmidtler, J Urheim, AJ Weinstein, F Würthwein, DW Bliss, G Masek, HP Paar, S Prell, V Sharma, DM Asner, J Gronberg, TS Hill, DJ Lange, RJ Morrison, HN Nelson, TK Nelson, JD Richman, D Roberts, A Ryd, MS Witherell, R Balest, BH Behrens, WT Ford, A Gritsan, H Park, J Roy, JG Smith, JP Alexander, C Bebek, BE Berger, K Berkelman, K Bloom, V Boisvert, DG Cassel, HA Cho, DS Crowcroft, M Dickson, S von Dombrowski, PS Drell, KM Ecklund, R Ehrlich, AD Foland, P Gaidarev, L Gibbons, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, PI Hopman, J Kandaswamy, PC Kim, DL Kreinick, T Lee, Y Liu, NB Mistry, CR Ng

Abstract:

We have measured the branching fractions for B → D®X, B → D®X, and B → D®Xℓ+v. From these results and some previously measured branching fractions, we obtain B(b → cc®s) = (21.9 ± 3.7)%, B(b → sg) < 6.8% at 90% C.L., and B(D0 → K− π+ = (3.69 ± 0.20)%. Implications for the “B semileptonic decay problem†(measured branching fraction being below theoretical expectations) are discussed. With the increase in the value of B(b → cc®s) due to B → DX, the discrepancy is no longer statistically compelling. © 1998 American Physical Society.

Further search for the two-photon production of the glueball candidate fJ(2220)

Physical Review Letters 81:16 (1998) 3328-3332

Authors:

MS Alam, SB Athar, Z Ling, AH Mahmood, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, JE Duboscq, KK Gan, T Hart, K Honscheid, H Kagan, R Kass, J Lee, H Schwarthoff, MB Spencer, A Wolf, MM Zoeller, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, A Undrus, M Bishai, J Fast, JW Hinson, N Menon, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, S Glenn, Y Kwon, AL Lyon, S Roberts, EH Thorndike, CP Jessop, K Lingel, H Marsiske, ML Perl, V Savinov, D Ugolini, X Zhou, TE Coan, V Fadeyev, I Korolkov, Y Maravin, I Narsky, V Shelkov, J Staeck, R Stroynowski, I Volobouev, J Ye, M Artuso, E Dambasuren, A Efimov, S Kopp, GC Moneti, R Mountain, S Schuh, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, A Titov, G Viehhauser, JC Wang, J Bartelt, SE Csorna, KW Mc Lean, S Marka, R Godang, K Kinoshita, IC Lai, P Pomianowski, S Schrenk, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, R Greene, LP Perera, GJ Zhou, M Chadhha, S Chan, G Eigen, JS Miller, M Schmidtler, J Urheim, AJ Weinstein, F Würthwein, DW Bliss, DE Jaffe, G Masek, HP Paar, EM Potter, S Prell, M Sivertz, V Sharma, DM Asner, J Gronberg, TS Hill, DJ Lange, RJ Morrison, HN Nelson, TK Nelson

Abstract:

The CLEO II detector at the e+e− storage ring CESR has been used to search for two-photon production of the fJ(2220) decaying into π+π−. No evidence for a signal is found in 4.77fb−1 of data and a 95% C.L. upper limit on [τγγBπ+π−]fJ(2220) of 2.5 eV is set. If this result is combined with the BES Collaboration's measurement of fJ(2220)→π+π− in radiative J/Ψ decay and the recent CLEO result for [τγγBK0SK0S]fJ(2220), a 95% C.L. lower limit on the stickiness of 102 is obtained. This result for the stickiness provides further support for a substantial neutral parton content in the fJ(2220). © 1998 The American Physical Society.

Investigation of semileptonic b meson decays to p-wave charm mesons

Physical Review Letters 80:19 (1998) 4127-4131

Authors:

A Anastassov, JE Duboscq, D Fujino, KK Gan, T Hart, K Honscheid, H Kagan, R Kass, J Lee, MB Spencer, M Sung, A Undrus, R Wanke, A Wolf, MM Zoeller, B Nemati, SJ Richichi, WR Ross, P Skubic, M Bishai, J Fast, JW Hinson, N Menon, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, M Yurko, S Glenn, SD Johnson, Y Kwon, S Roberts, EH Thorndike, CP Jessop, K Lingel, H Marsiske, ML Perl, V Savinov, D Ugolini, R Wang, X Zhou, TE Coan, V Fadeyev, I Korolkov, Y Maravin, I Narsky, V Shelkov, J Staeck, R Stroynowski, I Volobouev, J Ye, M Artuso, A Efimov, M Goldberg, D He, S Kopp, GC Moneti, R Mountain, S Schuh, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, G Viehhauser, X Xing, J Bartelt, SE Csorna, V Jain, KW McLean, S Marka, R Godang, K Kinoshita, IC Lai, P Pomianowski, S Schrenk, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, R Greene, LP Perera, GJ Zhou, B Barish, M Chadha, S Chan, G Eigen, JS Miller, C O’grady, M Schmidtler, J Urheim, AJ Weinstein, F Würthwein, DW Bliss, G Masek, HP Paar, S Prell, V Sharma, DM Asner, J Gronberg, TS Hill, DJ Lange, S Menary, RJ Morrison, HN Nelson, TK Nelson

Abstract:

We have studied semileptonic B meson decays with a p-wave charm meson in the final state using 3.29×106BB¯ events collected with the CLEO II detector at the Cornell Electron-Positron Storage Ring.We find a value for the exclusive semileptonic product branching fraction B(B−→D10ℓ−ν¯ℓ)µþ(¶Ù10→D*+π−) = (0.373±0.085±0.052±0.024)% and an upper limit for B(B−→D2*0â„“-ν¯ℓ)µþ(¶Ù2*0→D*+π−)<0.16% (90% C.L.).Furthermore, we present the first measurement of the q2 spectrum for B−→D10ℓ−ν¯ℓ. © 1998 The American Physical Society.

Jet pseudorapidity distribution in direct photon events in pp collisions at vs=1.8TeV

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 57:3 (1998) 1359-1365

Authors:

F Abe, MG Albrow, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, C Anway-Wiese, G Apollinari, H Areti, M Atac, P Auchincloss, F Azfar, P Azzi, N Bacchetta, W Badgett, MW Bailey, J Bao, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Bartalini, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Benlloch, J Bensinger, D Benton, A Beretvas, JP Berge, S Bertolucci, A Bhatti, K Biery, M Binkley, F Bird, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, A Bodek, W Bokhari, V Bolognesi, D Bortoletto, C Boswell, T Boulos, G Brandenburg, C Bromberg, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, J Cammerata, C Campagnari, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, A Castro, Y Cen, F Cervelli, HY Chao, J Chapman, MT Cheng, G Chiarelli, T Chikamatsu, CN Chiou, L Christofek, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, C Couyoumtzelis, D Crane, JD Cunningham, T Daniels, F DeJongh, S Delchamps, S Dell’Agnello, M Dell’Orso, L Demortier, B Denby, M Deninno, PF Derwent, T Devlin, M Dickson, JR Dittmann, S Donati, RB Drucker, A Dunn, K Einsweiler, JE Elias, R Ely

Abstract:

We present the first measurement of the jet pseudorapidity distribution in direct photon events from a sample of (Formula presented) collisions at (Formula presented) recorded with the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) predicts that these events are primarily from hard quark-gluon Compton scattering, (Formula presented) with the final state quark producing the jet of hadrons. The jet pseudorapidity distribution in this model is sensitive to parton momentum fractions between 0.015 and 0.15. We find that the shape of the measured pseudorapidity distribution agrees well with next-to-leading order QCD calculations. © 1998 The American Physical Society.

Measurement of B hadron lifetimes using J/ψ final states at CDF

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 57:9 (1998) 5382-5401

Authors:

F Abe, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, A Amadon, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, S Aota, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, S Bagdasarov, MW Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, M Barone, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin

Abstract:

The average bottom-hadron and individual (Formula presented), (Formula presented), and (Formula presented) meson lifetimes have been determined using decays with a (Formula presented) in the final state. The data sample consists of 110 pb(Formula presented) of (Formula presented) collisions at (Formula presented) TeV collected by the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider during 1992–1995. For the average lifetime of (Formula presented) hadrons decaying into (Formula presented)+X, we obtain (Formula presented) For the (Formula presented) and (Formula presented) meson lifetimes, we determine (Formula presented) (Formula presented) and (Formula presented) For the (Formula presented) meson lifetime, we find (Formula presented) ps. © 1998 The American Physical Society.