Abstract
Measurements of CP observables in B±→D(⁎)K± and B±→D(⁎)π± decays are presented, where D(⁎) indicates a neutral D or D⁎ meson that is an admixture of D(⁎)0 and D¯(⁎)0 states. Decays of the D⁎ meson to the Dπ0 and Dγ final states are partially reconstructed without inclusion of the neutral pion or photon, resulting in distinctive shapes in the B candidate invariant mass distribution. Decays of the D meson are fully reconstructed in the K±π∓, K+K− and π+π− final states. The analysis uses a sample of charged B mesons produced in pp collisions collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0, 1.0 and 2.0 fb−1 taken at centre-of-mass energies of s=7, 8 and 13 TeV, respectively. The study of B±→D⁎K± and B±→D⁎π± decays using a partial reconstruction method is the first of its kind, while the measurement of B±→DK± and B±→Dπ± decays is an update of previous LHCb measurements. The B±→DK± results are the most precise to date.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 16-30 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Physics Letters. Section B, Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics |
Volume | 777 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 10 Feb 2018 |
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 (The Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MinES and FASO (Russia); MinECo (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (USA). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (The Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland) and OSC (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 AvH Foundation (Germany), EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union), ANR, Labex P2IO, ENIGMASS and OCEVU, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France), RFBR and Yandex LLC (Russia), GVA, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain), Herchel Smith Fund, the Royal Society, the English-Speaking Union and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom). 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 (The Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MinES and FASO (Russia); MinECo (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (USA). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (The Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland) and OSC (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 AvH Foundation (Germany), EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union), ANR, Labex P2IO, ENIGMASS and OCEVU, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France), RFBR and Yandex LLC (Russia), GVA, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain), Herchel Smith Fund, the Royal Society, the English-Speaking Union and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom).
Funders | Funder number |
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Not added | 1681016, 1796908, ST/N000463/1, ST/N000242/1 |
EPLANET | |
Herchel Smith Fund | |
MinES | |
OCEVU | |
Yandex LLC | |
National Science Foundation | |
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung | |
California Department of Fish and Wildlife | |
Ministry of Science and Technology | |
School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming | |
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions | |
CERN | |
Science and Technology Facilities Council | ST/J004332/1, ST/N000250/1, 1641747, ST/K003410/1, ST/H006737/1, LHCb, ST/N000331/1, GRIDPP, LHCb Upgrades |
Leverhulme Trust | |
Royal Society | |
English-Speaking Union | |
European Commission | |
European Research Council | |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | |
Agence Nationale de la Recherche | |
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung | 166208 |
National Natural Science Foundation of China | CNRS /IN2P3 |
Russian Foundation for Basic Research | |
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior | |
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung | |
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | |
Generalitat Valenciana | |
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | |
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare | |
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | |
Narodowe Centrum Nauki | |
Narodowym Centrum Nauki | |
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego | |
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro | |
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan | |
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | |
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | |
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos | |
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Frauen | |
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations | |
Sociedad Española de Reumatología |