Journal article
Study of B0→D* -π π-π and B0→D*-K π-π decays
R Aaij, C Abellan Beteta, A Adametz, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, Y Amhis, L Anderlini, J Anderson, R Andreassen Show all
Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | Published : 2013
Abstract
Using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at √s=7 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb -1, the ratio of branching fractions of the B0→D* -π+π-π+ decay relative to the B0→D*-π+ decay is measured to be B(B0→D*-π+π-π+) B(B0→D*-π+)=2.64±0.04(stat)±0. 13(syst). The Cabibbo-suppressed decay B0→D*-K +π-π+ is observed for the first time, and the measured ratio of branching fractions is B(B0→D* -K+π-π+)B(B0→D* -π+π-π+)=(6.47±0. 37(stat)±0.35(syst))×10-2. A search for orbital excitations of charm mesons contributing to the B0→D* -π+π-π+ final state is also performed, and the first observation of the B0→D̄1 (2420)0π+π- decay is reported with the ratio of br..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 and Region Auvergne (France); BMBF, DFG, HGF and MPG (Germany); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); FOM and NWO (The Netherlands); SCSR (Poland); ANCS/IFA (Romania); MinES, Rosatom, RFBR and NRC "Kurchatov Institute'' (Russia); MinECo, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NAS Ukraine (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (USA). We also acknowledge the support received from the ERC under FP7. The Tier1 computing centres are supported by IN2P3 (France), KIT and BMBF (Germany), INFN (Italy), NWO and SURF (The Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom). We are thankful for the computing resources put at our disposal by Yandex LLC (Russia), as well as to the communities behind the multiple open source software packages that we depend on.