Evidence for the decays B0→D¯(*)0ϕ and updated measurements of the branching fractions of the Bs0→D¯(*)0ϕ decays

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Abstract

Evidence for the decays B0→D¯0ϕ and B0→D¯*0ϕ is reported with a significance of 3.6 σ and 4.3 σ, respectively. The analysis employs pp collision data at centre-of-mass energies s = 7, 8 and 13 TeV collected by the LHCb detector and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb−1. The branching fractions are measured to be (Formula presented.) In these results, the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic, and the third is related to the branching fraction of the B0→D¯0K+K decay, used for normalisation. By combining the branching fractions of the decays B0 → D¯∗0ϕ and B0 → D¯∗0ω, the ω-ϕ mixing angle δ is constrained to be tan2δ = (3.6 ± 0.7 ± 0.4) × 10−3, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. An updated measurement of the branching fractions of the Bs0 → D¯∗0ϕ decays, which can be used to determine the CKM angle γ, leads to (Formula presented.) (Figure presented.).

Original languageEnglish
Article number123
Pages (from-to)1-26
Number of pages26
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2023
Issue number10
Early online date20 Oct 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2023

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Funding

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); MOST and NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); NWO (Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MICINN (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE NP and NSF (USA). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), Polish WLCG (Poland) and NERSC (USA). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have received support from ARC and ARDC (Australia); Minciencias (Colombia); AvH Foundation (Germany); EPLANET, Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Actions, ERC and NextGenerationEU (European Union); A*MIDEX, ANR, IPhU and Labex P2IO, and R\u00E9gion Auvergne-Rh\u00F4ne-Alpes (France); Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, CAS CCEPP, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and Sci. & Tech. Program of Guangzhou (China); GVA, XuntaGal, GENCAT, Inditex, InTalent and Prog. Atracci\u00F3n Talento, CM (Spain); SRC (Sweden); the Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Society and UKRI (United Kingdom).

FundersFunder number
Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Fizica si Inginerie Nucleara 'Horia Hulubei'
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Australian Research Council
Australian Research Data Commons
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
National Science Foundation
Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
Science and Technology Facilities Council
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
NextGenerationEU
Automotive Research Center
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Program of Guangzhou
Leverhulme Trust
SURF
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
CAS CCEPP
GridPP
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS
Royal Society
Sociedad Española de Reumatología
European Research Council
EPLANET
Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki
Generalitat Valenciana
CERN
Nuclear Physics
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
UK Research and Innovation
National Natural Science Foundation of China

    Keywords

    • B Physics
    • Branching fraction
    • CKM Angle Gamma
    • Hadron-Hadron Scattering

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