Measurement of the relative branching fraction of γr(4S) to charged and neutral B-meson pairs

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作者
Alexander, JP [1 ]
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
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[1] Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[2] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[3] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[4] Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[5] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[6] Carleton Univ, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[7] McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[8] Ithaca Coll, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
[9] Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[10] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[11] SUNY Albany, Albany, NY 12222 USA
[12] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[13] Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA
[14] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[15] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[16] Stanford Univ, Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr, Stanford, CA 94309 USA
[17] So Methodist Univ, Dallas, TX 75275 USA
[18] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[19] Univ Texas, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[20] Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN 37235 USA
[21] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[22] Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI 48202 USA
[23] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[24] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[25] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[26] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[27] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[28] Univ Texas Pan Amer, Edinburg, TX 78539 USA
[29] Yonsei Univ, Seoul 120749, South Korea
[30] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[31] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2737
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We analyze 9.7 X 10(6) B (B) over bar pairs recorded with the CLEO detector to determine the production ratio of charged to neutral B-meson pairs produced at the Y(4S) resonance. We measure the rates for B-0 --> J/psiK((*)0) and B+ --> J/psiK((*)+) decays and use the world-average B-meson lifetime ratio to extract the relative widths f(+-)/f(00) = Gamma (Y(4S)-->B+B-)/Gamma (Y(4S)-->B-0(B) over bar (0)) = 1.04 +/- 0.07(stat) +/- 0.04(syst). With the assumption that f(+-) + f(00) = 1, we obtain f(00) = 0.49 +/- 0.02(stat) +/- 0.01(syst) and f(+-) = 0.51 +/- 0.02(stat) +/- 0.01(syst). This production ratio and its uncertainty apply to all exclusive B-meson branching fractions measured at the Y(4S) resonance.
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页码:2737 / 2741
页数:5
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