First observation of the decay B-s(0) -> K*(0)(K)over-bar*(0)

Aaij, R.; Abellan Beteta, C.; Adeva, B.; Adinolfi, M.; Adrover, C.; Affolder, A.; Ajaltouni, Z.; Albrecht, J.; Alessio, F.; Alexander, M.; Alkhazov, G.; Alvarez Cartelle, P.; Alves, A. A.; Amato, S.; Amhis, Y.; Anderson, J.; Appleby, R. B.; Gutierrez, O. Aquines; Archilli, F.; Arrabito, L.; Artamonov, A.; Artuso, M.; Aslanides, E.; Auriemma, G.; Bachmann, S.; Back, J. J.; Bailey, D. S.; Balagura, V.; Baldini, W.; Barlow, R. J.; Barschel, C.; Barsuk, S.; Barter, W.; Bates, A.; Bauer, C.; Bauer, Th; Bay, A.; Bediaga, I.; Belogurov, S.; Belous, K.; Belyaev, I.; Ben-Haim, E.; Benayoun, M.; Bencivenni, G.; Benson, S.; Benton, J.; Bernet, R.; Bettler, M-O.; van Beuzekom, M.; Bien, A.; Bifani, S.; Bizzeti, A.; Bjornstad, P. M.; Blake, T.; Blanc, F.; Blanks, C.; Blouw, J.; Blusk, S.; Bobrov, A.; Bocci, V.; Bondar, A.; Bondar, N.; Bonivento, W.; Borghi, S.; Borgia, A.; Bowcock, T. J. V.; Bozzi, C.; Brambach, T.; van den Brand, J.; Bressieux, J.; Brett, D.; Brisbane, S.; Britsch, M.; Britton, T.; Brook, N. H.; Brown, H.; Buechler-Germann, A.; Burducea, I.; Bursche, A.; Buytaert, J.; Cadeddu, S.; Carvajal, J. M. Caicedo; Callot, O.; Calvi, M.; Calvo Gomez, M.; Camboni, A.; Campana, P.; Carbone, A.; Carboni, G.; Cardinale, R.; Cardini, A.; Carson, L.; Carvalho Akiba, K.; Casse, G.; Cattaneo, M.; Charles, M.; Charpentier, Ph; Chiapolini, N.; Ciba, K.; Cid Vidal, X.; et al.

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.02.001

research article

First observation of the decay B-s(0) -> K*(0)(K)over-bar*(0)

Aaij, R.

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Abellan Beteta, C.

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Adeva, B.

2012

Physics Letters B

The first observation of the decay B-s(0) -> K*(0)(K) over bar*(0) is reported using 35 pb(-1) of data collected by LHCb in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. A total of 49.8 +/- 7.5 B-s(0) -> (K+pi(-))(K-pi(+)) events are observed within +/- 50 MeV/c(2) of the B-s(0) mass and 746 MeV/c(2) < m(K pi) < 1046 MeV/c(2), mostly coming from a resonant B-s(0) -> K*(0)(K) over bar*(0) signal. The branching fraction and the CP-averaged K*(0) longitudinal polarization fraction are measured to B(B-s(0) -> K*(0)(K) over bar*(0)) = (2.81 +/- 0.46(stat.) +/- 0.45(syst.) +/- 0.34(f(s)/f(d))) x 10(-5) and f(L) = 0.31 +/- 0.12(stat.) +/- 0.04(syst.). (C) 2012 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Type

research article

DOI

10.1016/j.physletb.2012.02.001

Web of Science ID

WOS:000302111200007

Author(s)

Aaij, R.

Abellan Beteta, C.

Adeva, B.

Adinolfi, M.

Adrover, C.

Affolder, A.

Ajaltouni, Z.

Albrecht, J.

Alessio, F.

Alexander, M.

Date Issued

2012

Published in

Physics Letters B

Volume

709

Start page

50

End page

58

Subjects

Branching Fractions

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Amplitudes

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units

LPHE

Available on Infoscience

May 4, 2012

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/79987