Measurements of the absolute branching fractions of B± →k±Xc c

Lees, Jean-Pierre; Poireau, Vincent; Tisserand, Vincent; Grauges, Eugeni; Palano, Antimo; Eigen, Gerald; Brown, David Nathan; Kolomensky, Yury G.; Fritsch, Miriam; Koch, Helmut; Schroeder, Torsten; Cheaib, Racha; Hearty, Christopher; Mattison, Tom S.; McKenna, Janis A.; So, Rocky Y.; Blinov, Vladimir E.; Buzykaev, Alexey; Druzhinin, Vladimir P.; Golubev, Vladimir B.; Kozyrev, Evgeny A.; Kravchenko, Evgeniy A.; Onuchin, Alexei P.; Serednyakov, Sergey I.; Skovpen, Yuri I.; Solodov, Evgeni Petrovich; Todyshev, Korneliy Yu.; Lankford, Andrew J.; Dey, Biplab; Gary, J. William; Long, Owen; Eisner, Alan M.; Lockman, William S.; Panduro-Vazquez, William; Chao, Daniel S.; Cheng, Chih-Hsiang; Echenard, Bertrand; Flood, Kevin T.; Hitlin, David G.; Kim, Jae; Lee, Myeongjae; Miyashita, Tomonari S.; Ongmongkolkul, Piti; Porter, Frank C.; Röhrken, Markus; Huard, Zachary; Meadows, Brian T.; Pushpawela, Buddhi G.; Sokoloff, Michael D.; Sun, Liang; BABAR, Collaboration
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2020-04-16
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Physical Review Letters. 2020, 124 (15):152001.   10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.152001
Abstract
A study of the two-body decays B±→Xc¯cK±, where Xc¯c refers to one charmonium state, is reported by the BABAR Collaboration using a data sample of 424 fb−1. The absolute determination of branching fractions for these decays are significantly improved compared to previous BABAR measurements. Evidence is found for the decay B+→X(3872)K+ at the 3σ level. The absolute branching fraction B[B+→X(3872)K+]=[2.1±0.6(stat)±0.3(syst)]×10−4 is measured for the first time. It follows that B[X(3872)→J/ψπ+π−]=(4.1±1.3)%, supporting the hypothesis of a molecular component for this resonance.
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American Physical Society
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Physical Review Letters
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