Observation of the B+ →D∗-K+π+ decay

R. Aaij, B. Adeva, Z. Ajaltouni, S. Akar, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A. A. Alves, S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, L. An, L. Anderlini, G. Andreassi, M. Andreotti, J. E. Andrews, R. B. Appleby, F. ArchilliP. D'Argent, J. Arnau Romeu, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, I. Babuschkin, S. Bachmann, J. J. Back, A. Badalov, C. Baesso, S. Baker, K. Carvalho Akiba, V. Coco, K. De Bruyn, M. Ferro-Luzzi, T. Ketel, J. Van Leerdam, M. Merk, C. J.G. Onderwater, G. Raven, M. Schiller, N. Serra, B. Storaci, V. Syropoulos, J. Van Tilburg, S. Tolk, P. Tsopelas, N. Tuning, (LHCb Collaboration)

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Abstract

The B+→D∗-K+π+ decay potentially provides an excellent way to investigate charm meson spectroscopy. The decay is searched for in a sample of proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb-1. A clear signal is observed, and the ratio of its branching fraction to that of the B+→D∗-π+π+ normalization channel is measured to be B(B+→D∗-K+π+)/B(B+→D∗-π+π+)=(6.39±0.27±0.48)×10-2, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. This is the first observation of the B+→D∗-K+π+ decay.

Original languageEnglish
Article number011101
Pages (from-to)1-10
Number of pages10
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume96
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Jul 2017

Funding

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).

FundersFunder number
GridPP
IFIN-HH
NSFC (China) CNRS/IN2P3
PL-GRID
RRCKI
SURF
Yandex LLC
National Science Foundation
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
CERN
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilST/N000250/1, ST/H006737/1, ST/N000331/1, GRIDPP, LHCb Upgrades, 1707993, ST/J004332/1, 1641747, 1681016, ST/K003410/1, 1708182, ST/G005974/1, LHCb, ST/N000234/1
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung166208
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations
Sociedad Española de Reumatología

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