LHCb Collaboration (Including: Back, J. J., Dossett, D., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Kreps, Michal, Latham, Thomas, Pilar, T., Poluektov, Anton, Reid, M. M., Silva Coutinho, R., Whitehead, M. and Williams, M. P.). (2012) First observation of the decays B0 -> D+K-π+π- and B- -> D0K-π+π-. Physical Review Letters, Vol.108 (No.16). p. 161801. ISSN 0031-9007

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First observations of the Cabibbo-suppressed decays B0→D+K-π+π- and B-→D0K-π+π- are reported using 35pb -1 of data collected with the LHCb detector. Their branching fractions are measured with respect to the corresponding Cabibbo-favored decays, from which we obtain B(B0→D+K-π+π-)/B(B0→D+π-π+π-)=(5.9±1.1±0.5) ×10-2 and B(B-→D0K-π+π-)/B(B-→D0π-π+π-)=(9.4±1.3±0.9) ×10-2, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. The B-→D0K-π+π- decay is particularly interesting, as it can be used in a similar way to B-→D0K- to measure the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa phase γ.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	B mesons -- Decay, Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)
Journal or Publication Title:	Physical Review Letters
Publisher:	American Physical Society
ISSN:	0031-9007
Date:	18 April 2012
Volume:	Vol.108
Number:	No.16
Page Range:	p. 161801
Identification Number:	10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.161801
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder:	Brazil. Coordenação do Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (Brazil) (FINEP), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Guo jia zi ran ke xue ji jin wei yuan hui (China) [National Natural Science Foundation of China] (NSFC), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) (CNRS), Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules (IN2P3), Germany. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften [Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science], Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare (INFN), Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM) [Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter], Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research] (NWO), SCSR (Poland), Autoritatea Nationala pentru Cercetare Stiintifica (ANCS), Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo obrazovanii︠a︡ i nauki [Ministry of Education and Science], Federalʹnoe agentstvo po atomnoĭ ėnergii (Russia), Spain. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN), Galicia (Spain : Region). Xunta, Catalonia (Spain), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung [Swiss National Science Foundation] (SNSF), Switzerland. Staatssekretariat für Ausbildung und Forschung (SER), Nat︠s︡ionalʹna akademii︠a︡ nauk Ukraïny (NAS), Science and Technology Facilities Council (Great Britain) (STFC), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF), Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7), Auvergne (France)
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URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/49305

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