. (2012) Observation and study of the baryonic B-meson decays B→D^{(*)}pp[over ¯](π)(π). Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology), Vol.85 (No.9). Article no. 092017. ISSN 1550-7998

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Abstract

We present results for B-meson decay modes involving a charm meson, protons, and pions using 455×106 BB̅ pairs recorded by the BaBar detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. The branching fractions are measured for the following ten decays: B̅ 0→D0pp̅ , B̅ 0→D*0pp̅ , B̅ 0→D+pp̅ π-, B̅ 0→D*+pp̅ π-, B-→D0pp̅ π-, B-→D*0pp̅ π-, B̅ 0→D0pp̅ π-π+, B̅ 0→D*0pp̅ π-π+, B-→D+pp̅ π-π-, and B-→D*+pp̅ π-π-. The four B- and the two five-body B̅ 0 modes are observed for the first time. The four-body modes are enhanced compared to the three- and the five-body modes. In the three-body modes, the M(pp̅ ) and M(D(*)0p) invariant-mass distributions show enhancements near threshold values. In the four-body mode B̅ 0→D+pp̅ π-, the M(pπ-) distribution shows a narrow structure of unknown origin near 1.5  GeV/c2. The distributions for the five-body modes, in contrast to the others, are similar to the expectations from uniform phase-space predictions.

Item Type:	Journal Article
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:	2012
Volume:	Vol.85
Number:	No.9
Number of Pages:	21
Page Range:	Article no. 092017
Identification Number:	10.1103/PhysRevD.85.092017
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/49515

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