Measurement of branching fractions for B → χc1(2)K (K*) at Belle

N. Soni, K. Abe, K. Abe, I. Adachi, H. Aihara, K. Arinstein, Y. Asano, V. Aulchenko, T. Aushev, A. M. Bakich, E. Barberio, I. Bedny, U. Bitenc, I. Bizjak, S. Blyth, A. Bondar, M. Bračko, T. E. Browder, P. Chang, Y. ChaoA. Chen, K. F. Chen, B. G. Cheon, R. Chistov, S. K. Choi, Y. Choi, A. Chuvikov, J. Dalseno, M. Danilov, M. Dash, L. Y. Dong, S. Eidelman, Y. Enari, D. Epifanov, S. Fratina, N. Gabyshev, A. Garmash, T. Gershon, A. Go, G. Gokhroo, B. Golob, A. Gorišek, J. Haba, T. Hara, K. Hayasaka, H. Hayashii, M. Hazumi, L. Hinz, T. Hokuue, Y. Hoshi, S. Hou, W. S. Hou, T. Iijima, K. Ikado, A. Imoto, K. Inami, A. Ishikawa, R. Itoh, J. H. Kang, J. S. Kang, P. Kapusta, N. Katayama, T. Kawasaki, H. R. Khan, H. Kichimi, H. J. Kim, S. M. Kim, S. Korpar, P. Križan, P. Krokovny, R. Kulasiri, C. C. Kuo, A. Kuzmin, Y. J. Kwon, T. Lesiak, S. W. Lin, D. Liventsev, G. Majumder, F. Mandl, T. Matsumoto, Y. Mikami, W. Mitaroff, K. Miyabayashi, H. Miyake, H. Miyata, Y. Miyazaki, R. Mizuk, D. Mohapatra, T. Nagamine, Z. Natkaniec, S. Nishida, O. Nitoh, S. Ogawa, T. Ohshima, T. Okabe, S. Okuno, S. L. Olsen, Y. Onuki, W. Ostrowicz, H. Ozaki, P. Pakhlov, C. W. Park, R. Pestotnik, M. Peters, L. E. Piilonen, A. Poluektov, Y. Sakai, N. Sato, T. Schietinger, O. Schneider, M. E. Sevior, H. Shibuya, B. Shwartz, V. Sidorov, J. B. Singh, A. Somov, S. Stanič, M. Starič, T. Sumiyoshi, S. Suzuki, S. Y. Suzuki, F. Takasaki, K. Tamai, N. Tamura, M. Tanaka, G. N. Taylor, Y. Teramoto, X. C. Tian, T. Tsuboyama, T. Tsukamoto, S. Uehara, K. Ueno, T. Uglov, S. Uno, P. Urquijo, G. Varner, S. Villa, C. C. Wang, C. H. Wang, Y. Watanabe, E. Won, Q. L. Xie, A. Yamaguchi, Y. Yamashita, M. Yamauchi, J. Ying, Y. Yuan, C. C. Zhang, L. M. Zhang, Z. P. Zhang, V. Zhilich

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Abstract

We have measured the branching fractions for the exclusive decay modes B→χc1(2)K(K*) using a 140 fb-1 data sample collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e +e- collider. The measured branching fractions for B +→χc1K+, B0→χ c1K0, B0→χc1K* 0 and B+→χc1K*+ decay modes are (4.5±0.2±0.5)×10-4, (3.5±0.3±0.5)×10-4, (3.1±0.3±0.7) ×10-4 and (4.1±0.6±0.9)×10-4, respectively, where the first error is statistical and the second error is systematic. We do not observe statistically significant signals for the B→χc2K(K*) decay modes and set upper limits at the 90% confidence level. We also study the helicity distribution for B→χc1K* decay mode and show that the longitudinal polarization component is dominant.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)155-164
Number of pages10
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume634
Issue number2-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006 Mar 9

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank the KEKB group for the excellent operation of the accelerator, the KEK cryogenics group for the efficient operation of the solenoid, and the KEK computer group and the National Institute of Informatics for valuable computing and Super-SINET network support. We acknowledge support from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; the Australian Research Council and the Australian Department of Education, Science and Training; the National Science Foundation of China under contract No. 10175071; the Department of Science and Technology of India; the BK21 program of the Ministry of Education of Korea and the CHEP SRC program of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation; the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research under contract No. 2P03B 01324; the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation; the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the National Science Council and the Ministry of Education of Taiwan; and the US Department of Energy.

Keywords

  • B-meson
  • Branching fractions
  • Charmonium
  • Polarization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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