Observation of the B0 → D ¯ ∗0K+π- and Bs0 → D ¯ ∗0K-π+ decays

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Abstract

The first observations of B0→D¯∗(2007)0K+π- and Bs0→D¯∗(2007)0K-π+ decays are presented, and their branching fractions relative to that of the B0→D¯∗(2007)0π+π- decay are reported. These modes can potentially be used to investigate the spectroscopy of charm and charm-strange resonances and to determine the angle γ of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa unitarity triangle. It is also important to understand them as a source of potential background in determinations of γ from B+→DK+ and B0→DK+π- decays. The analysis is based on a sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data at 13 TeV center-of-mass energy recorded with the LHCb detector. The D¯∗(2007)0 mesons are fully reconstructed in the D¯0π0 and D¯0γ channels with the D¯0→K+π- decay. A novel weighting method is used to subtract background while simultaneously applying an event-by-event efficiency correction to account for resonant structures in the decays.
Original languageEnglish
Article number072005
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume105
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2022

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); Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MSHE) (Russia); 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), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (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); AvH Foundation (Germany); The European Particle physics Latin America NETwork (EPLANET), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union); Launch Of New Calls For Projects (A*MIDEX), ANR, Institute for Physics of the Universe (IPhU) and Labex P2IO, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France); Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI), CAS CCEPP, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou (China); RFBR, RSF and Yandex LLC (Russia); GVA, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain); the Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Society and UKRI (United Kingdom).

FundersFunder number
ARDC
CAS CCEPP
European Particle physics Latin America NETwork
Institute for Physics of the Universe
Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS
XuntaGal
Yandex LLC
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Automotive Research Center
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
CERN
UK Research and Innovation
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Leverhulme Trust
Royal Society
European Commission
European Research Council
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Generalitat Valenciana
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Guangzhou Science and Technology Program key projects
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki
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
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Russian Science Foundation
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
Sociedad Española de Reumatología

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