Investigation of the Decay of Orbitally-Excited B Mesons and First Measurement of the Branching Ratio $BR(B^{*}_{J} \rightarrow B^{*}\pi(X))$

From about 4 million hadronic Z decays recorded by the OPAL detector on and near to the Z resonance, we select a sample of more than 570000 inclusively reconstructed B mesons. Orbitally-excited mesons B*J are reconstructed using Bpi+- combinations. Independently, B* mesons are reconstructed using th...

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Autores principales: Abbiendi, G., Ackerstaff, K., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Ashby, S.F., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Baumann, S., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Bright-Thomas, P., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Cooke, O.C., Couchman, J., Couyoumtzelis, C., Coxe, R.L., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., de Roeck, A., de Wolf, E., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Estabrooks, P.G., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Fanti, M., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Hansroul, M., Hapke, M., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauke, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hocker, James Andrew, Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Honma, A.K., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jacob, F.R., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., Lillich, J., List, B., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Ogren, H.O., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Patt, J., Pfeifenschneider, P., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Runolfsson, O., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G.P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Stumpf, L., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Tarem, S., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thiergen, M., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Towers, S., Toya, D., Trefzger, T., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Vachon, B., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., White, J.S., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2000
Materias:
Particle Physics - Experiment
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s100520200892
http://cds.cern.ch/record/468617
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Sumario:From about 4 million hadronic Z decays recorded by the OPAL detector on and near to the Z resonance, we select a sample of more than 570000 inclusively reconstructed B mesons. Orbitally-excited mesons B*J are reconstructed using Bpi+- combinations. Independently, B* mesons are reconstructed using the decay B* -> Bgamma. The selected B* candidates are used to obtain samples enriched or depleted in the decay B*J -> B*pi+-(X), where (X) refers to decay modes with or without additional accompanying decay particles. From the number of signal candidates in the Bpi+- mass spectra of these two samples, we perform the first measurement of the branching ratio of orbitally-excited B mesons decaying into B*pi(X): BR(B*J ->B*pi(X)) = 0.85 +0.36-0.37 +- 0.12, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. If B*J decay modes other than single pion transitions can be neglected the measured ratio corresponds to the branching ratio BR(B*J->B*pi). In the framework of Heavy Quark Symmetry, a simultaneous fit to the Bpi+- mass spectra of the samples enriched or depleted in B*J->B*pi+-(X) decays yields the mass and the width of the B1(3/2) state, as well as the branching ratio of B*J mesons decaying into B*pi: M(B1(3/2)) = (5.738 +0.005-0.006 +-0.007) GeV/c2 G(B1(3/2)) = (18 +15-13 +29-23) MeV/c BR(B*J->B*pi) = 0.74 +0.12-0.10 +0.21-0.15, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively.

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