%0 Journal Article
%T Measurement of the B -> X(s)l(+)l(-) Branching Fraction and Search for Direct CP Violation from a Sum of Exclusive Final States
%A BABAR Collaboration (Lees, J. P. et al
%A Martinez-Vidal, F.
%A Oyanguren, A.
%A Villanueva-Perez, P.
%J Physical Review Letters
%D 2014
%V 112
%N 21
%I Amer Physical Soc
%@ 0031-9007
%G English
%F BABARCollaborationLees_etal2014
%O WOS:000338034400002
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1827), last updated on Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:44:50 +0000
%X We measure the total branching fraction of the flavor-changing neutral-current process B -> X(s)l(+)l(-), along with partial branching fractions in bins of dilepton and hadronic system (X-s) mass, using a sample of 471 x 10(6)Upsilon(4S) -> B (B) over bar events recorded with the BABAR detector. The admixture of charged and neutral B mesons produced at PEP-II2 are reconstructed by combining a dilepton pair with 10 different X-s final states. Extrapolating from a sum over these exclusive modes, we measure a lepton-flavor-averaged inclusive branching fraction B(B -> X(s)l(+)l(-)) = [6.73(-0.64)(+0.70)(stat)(-0.25)(+0.34)(exp syst) +/- 0.50(model syst)] x 10(-6) for m(l+l-)(2) > 0.1 GeV2/c(4). Restricting our analysis exclusively to final states from which a decaying B meson's flavor can be inferred, we additionally report measurements of the direct CP asymmetry A(CP) in bins of dilepton mass; over the full dilepton mass range, we find A(CP) = 0.04 +/- 0.11 +/- 0.01 for a leptonflavor-averaged sample.
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.211802
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1312.5364
%U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.211802
%P 211802-8pp