BaBar Collaboration (Including:

). (2009) Measurement of the semileptonic decays (B)over-bar -> D tau(-)(nu)over-bar(tau) and (B)over-bar -> D*tau(-)(nu)over-bar(tau). Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology), Vol.79 (No.9). article no. 092002 . ISSN 1550-7998

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Abstract

We present measurements of the semileptonic decays B- -> D-0 tau(-)(nu) over bar (tau), B- -> D*(0)tau(-)(nu) over bar tau, (B) over bar (0) -> D+tau(-)(nu) over bar (tau), and (B) over bar (0) -> D*(+)tau(-)(nu) over bar (tau), which are sensitive to non-standard model amplitudes in certain scenarios. The data sample consists of 232 x 10(6) Y(4S) -> B (B) over bar decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e(+)e(-) squared to distinguish signalcollider. We select events with a D or D* meson and a light lepton (l = e or mu) recoiling against a fully reconstructed B meson. We perform a fit to the joint distribution of lepton momentum and missing mass (B) over bar -> D-(*())tau(-)(nu) over bar (tau) events from the backgrounds, predominantly R(D*) equivalent to B((B) over bar -> D*tau(-)(nu) over bar (tau))/B((B) over bar -> D*l(-)(nu) over bar (l)) and, from a combined fit to B- and (B) over bar (0) channels, obtain the results R(D) = (41.6 +/- 11.7 +/- 5.2)% and R(D*) = (29.7 +/- 5.6 +/- 1.8)%, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic. Normalizing to measured B- -> D-(*()0)l(-)(nu) over bar (l) branching fractions, we obtain B((B) over bar -> D tau(-)(nu) over bar (tau)) = (0.86 +/- 0.24 +/- 0.06)% and B((B) over bar -> D*tau(-)(nu) over bar (tau)) = (1.62 +/- 0.31 +/- 0.10 +/- 0.05)%, where the additional third uncertainty is from the normalization mode. We also present, for the first time, distributions of the lepton momentum vertical bar P-l*vertical bar, and the squared momentum transfer, q(2).

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Physics
Journal or Publication Title:	Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
Publisher:	American Physical Society
ISSN:	1550-7998
Date:	May 2009
Volume:	Vol.79
Number:	No.9
Number of Pages:	27
Page Range:	article no. 092002
Identification Number:	10.1103/PhysRevD.79.092002
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Funder:	US Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada), Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique and Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules (France), Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy), Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (The Netherlands), Research Council of Norway, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (Spain), Science and Technology Facilities Council (United Kingdom), Marie-Curie IEF program (European Union), A. P. Sloan Foundation
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/27781

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