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Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 171803 (2005) [7 pages]

Measurement of Semileptonic Branching Fractions of B Mesons to Narrow D** States

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V. M. Abazov et al. D0 Collaboration
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Received 14 July 2005; published 18 October 2005

Using the data accumulated in 2002–2004 with the D0 detector in proton-antiproton collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron collider with a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV, the branching fractions of the decays BD̅ 10(2420)μ+νμX and BD̅ 2*0(2460)μ+νμX and their ratio have been measured: B(b̅ →BB(BD̅ 10μ+νμXB(D̅ 10D*-π+)=[0.087±0.007(stat)±0.014(syst)]%; B(b̅ →BB(BD̅ 2*0μ+νμXB(D̅ 2*0D*-π+)=[0.035±0.007(stat)±0.008(syst)]% and [B(BD̅ 2*0μ+νμXB(D̅ 2*0D*-π+)]/[B(BD̅ 10μ+νμXB(D̅ 10D*-π+)]=0.39±0.09(stat)±0.12(syst), where the charge conjugated states are always implied.

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URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.171803
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.171803
PACS:
13.25.Hw, 14.40.Lb