Journal article
Determination of fs/fd for 7 TeV pp collisions and measurement of the B0→D-K branching fraction
R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, Y Amhis, J Amoraal, J Anderson, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, L Arrabito, A Artamonov Show all
Physical Review Letters | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | Published : 2011
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Abstract
The relative abundance of the three decay modes B0→D-K +, B0→D-π+, and Bs0→Ds- π+ produced in 7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC is determined from data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35pb-1. The branching fraction of B0→D-K+ is found to be B(B0→D-K+)=(2.01±0.18stat±0.14syst) ×10-4. The ratio of fragmentation fractions f s/fd is determined through the relative abundance of Bs0→Ds-π+ to B0→D-K+ and B0→D-π+, leading to fs/f d=0.253±0.017±0.017±0.020, where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and theoretical, respectively. © 2011 CERN.
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Awarded by National Science Foundation
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 CERN and at the LHCb institutes and acknowledge support from the National Agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ, and FINEP (Brazil); CERN; NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, HGF, and MPG (Germany); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); FOM and NWO (The Netherlands); SCSR (Poland); ANCS (Romania); MinES of Russia and Rosatom (Russia); MICINN, 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 and the Region Auvergne.