PT Journal
AU LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, Rea
   Garcia Martin, LM
   Henry, L
   Martinez-Vidal, F
   Oyanguren, A
   Remon Alepuz, C
   Ruiz Valls, P
   Ruiz Vidal, J
   Sanchez Mayordomo, C
TI Measurement of the relative B- -> D-0 / D*(0) / D**(0)mu(-)(nu)over-bar(mu) branching fractions using B- mesons from (B)over-bar(S)(2)*(0) decays
SO Physical Review D
JI Phys. Rev. D
PY 2019
BP 092009
EP 16pp
VL 99
IS 9
DI 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.092009
LA English
AB The decay of the narrow resonance (B) over bar (s2)*(0 )-> B(-)K(+)can be used to determine the B- momentum in partially reconstructed decays without any assumptions on the decay products of the r meson. This technique is employed for the first time to distinguish contributions from D-0, D*(0), and higher-mass charmed states (D**(0)) in semileptonic B- decays by using the missing-mass distribution. The measurement is performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb(-1) collected with the LHCb detector in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The resulting branching fractions relative to the inclusive B- -> (DX)-X-0 mu(-)(nu) over bar (mu )are f(D)(0)= B(B- -> D-0 mu(-)(nu) over bar mu/B(B- ->(DX)-D- -X-0 mu(-)(nu) over bar (mu))( )= 0.25( )+/- 0.06, f( D)**(0 )= B(B- -> (D**(0) -> (DX)-X-0)mu(-)(nu) over bar (mu))/B(B--> (DX)-X-0 mu(-)(nu) over bar (mu)) = 0.21 +/- 0.07, with f(D)*(0) = 1 – f(D)(0) – f(D)**(0) making up the remainder.
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