PT Journal
AU LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, Rea
   Garcia Martin, LM
   Henry, L
   Jashal, BK
   Martinez-Vidal, F
   Oyanguren, A
   Remon Alepuz, C
   Ruiz Vidal, J
   Sanchez Mayordomo, C
TI First observation of the decay B-0 -> D-0(D)over-bar(0)K(+)pi(-)
SO Physical Review D
JI Phys. Rev. D
PY 2020
BP 051102
EP 11pp
VL 102
IS 5
DI 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.051102
LA English
AB The first observation of the decay B-0 -> D-0(D) over bar K-0(+)pi(-) is reported using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb(-1) collected by the LHCb experiment in 2011, 2012 and 2016. The measurement is performed in the full kinematically allowed range of the decay outside of the D*(-) region. The ratio of the branching fraction relative to that of the control channel B-0 -> D-0<(DK+)-K-0 pi(-)+ is measured to be R = (14.2 +/- 1.1 +/- 1.0)%, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. The absolute branching fraction of B-0 -> D-0(D) over bar K-0(+)pi(- )decays is thus determined to be B(B-0 -> D-0(D) over bar K-0(+)pi(-)) = (3.50 +/- 0.27 +/- 0.26 +/- 0.30) x 10(-4), where the third uncertainty is due to the branching fraction of the control channel. This decay mode is expected to provide insights to spectroscopy and the charm-loop contributions in rare semileptonic decays.
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