Hadronic B Decays to Charm and Charmonium With the BaBar Experiment

Abstract

The {\it BaBar} experiment has recorded the decays of more than 465$\times 10^{6}B\bar{B}$ pairs since 1999, and is reaching an unprecedented precision in the measurement of hadronic B decays. The following results are presented: tests of QCD factorization with the decays $B\to {\chi }_{c0}{K}^{\ast }$, $B\to {\chi }_{c1,2}{K}^{(\ast )}$, and ${\bar{B}}^0\to D^{(\ast )0}{h}^0$, $h^0={\pi }^0,\eta ,\omega ,{\eta }^{\prime }$, study of the decays to charmonium $B\to {\eta }_c{K}^{(\ast )},{\eta }_c(2S)K^{(\ast )}$ and $h_c{K}^{(\ast )}$, measurement of the mass difference between neutral and charged $B$'s, measurement of the "r" parameters for the extraction of the CKM angles $\sin (2\beta +\gamma )$ with the decays $B\to D_s^{(\ast )}h,h={\pi }^{-},{\rho }^{-},K^{(\ast )+}$, study of the three-body rare decays $B\to J/\psi \varphi K$, study of the baryonic decays ${\bar{B}}^0\to {\Lambda }_c^{+}\bar{p}$, $B^{-}\to {\Lambda }_c^{+}{\pi }^{-}\bar{p}$, and $B^{-}\to {\Lambda }_c^{+}{\pi }^0\bar{p}$. Except for the published results, all the given numbers are preliminary.

4 pages, proceedings for ICHEP2008