RHCPP 02-09 (PUB)
2002

 
 

Royal Holloway Centre for Particle Physics


Measurement of the B0 >D*-a1+ Branching Fraction with Partially Reconstructed D*
P F Salvatore, G Vaitsas et al
 
Abstract
We present a preliminary measurement of the branching fraction for B0>D*-a1+ decays recorded by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC. The data sample consists of 20.6 fb-1 collected at the Y(4S) resonance and 2.6 fb-1 off-resonance. Signal events have been selected using a partial reconstruction technique, in which only the a1+ and the slow pion from the D*- decay are identified. A signal yield of 18400 ± 1200 events has been found, corresponding to a preliminary branching fraction of (1.20 ± 0.07(stat) ± 0.14(syst))%.
 
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Report-no: BABAR-CONF-02/10, SLAC-PUB-9315, hep-ex/0207085