Measurement of the B → X[subscript s]ℓ[superscript +]ℓ[superscript −] Branching Fraction and Search for Direct CP Violation from a Sum of Exclusive Final States
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Dujmic, Denis; Sciolla, Gabriella; Cowan, Ray F
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We measure the total branching fraction of the flavor-changing neutral-current process B → X[subscript s]ℓ[superscript +]ℓ[superscript −], along with partial branching fractions in bins of dilepton and hadronic system (X[subscript s]) mass, using a sample of 471 × 10[superscript 6] Υ(4S) → B[bar over B] events recorded with the BABAR detector. The admixture of charged and neutral B mesons produced at PEP-II2 are reconstructed by combining a dilepton pair with 10 different X[subscript s] final states. Extrapolating from a sum over these exclusive modes, we measure a lepton-flavor-averaged inclusive branching fraction B(B → X[subscript s]ℓ[superscript +]ℓ[superscript −]) = [6.73[+0.70 over −0.64](stat)[+0.34 over −0.25](exp syst) ± 0.50(model syst)] × 10[superscript −6] for m[2 over ℓ+ℓ−] > 0.1 GeV[superscript 2]/c[superscript 4]. Restricting our analysis exclusively to final states from which a decaying B meson’s flavor can be inferred, we additionally report measurements of the direct CP asymmetry A[subscript CP] in bins of dilepton mass; over the full dilepton mass range, we find A[subscript CP] = 0.04 ± 0.11 ± 0.01 for a lepton-flavor-averaged sample.
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2014-05Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Lees, J. P., V. Poireau, V. Tisserand, E. Grauges, A. Palano, G. Eigen, B. Stugu, et al. “Measurement of the B → X[subscript s]ℓ[superscript +]ℓ[superscript −] Branching Fraction and Search for Direct CP Violation from a Sum of Exclusive Final States.” Physical Review Letters 112, no. 21 (May 2014). © 2014 American Physical Society
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0031-9007
1079-7114