Observation of the Decay B^{-} \rightarrow D_{s}^{(*)+} K^{-} \ell^{-} \barν_{\ell}

The BABAR Collaboration; P. del Amo Sanchez

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.041804

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Observation of the Decay B^{-} \rightarrow D_{s}^{(*)+} K^{-} \ell^{-} \barν_{\ell}

arXiv:1012.4158 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.041804

Abstract

We report the observation of the decay $B^{-} \to D_{s}^{(*) +} K^{-} ℓ^{-} ν ˉ_{ℓ}$ based on $342 \mathrm {\,fb}^{-1}}$ of data collected at the $\Y4S$ resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II $e^{+} e^{-}$ storage rings at SLAC. A simultaneous fit to three $D_{s}^{+}$ decay chains is performed to extract the signal yield from measurements of the squared missing mass in the B meson decay. We observe the decay $B^{-} \to D_{s}^{(*) +} K^{-} ℓ^{-} ν ˉ_{ℓ}$ with a significance greater than five standard deviations (including systematic uncertainties) and measure its branching fraction to be $\BR(B^{-} \rightarrow D^{(*)+}_{s} K^{-} \ell^{-} \barν_{\ell}) = [6.13^{+1.04}_{-1.03}(\mathrm{stat.})\pm0.43(\mathrm{syst.}) \pm 0.51(\BR(D_{s}))]\times10^{-4}$, where the last error reflects the limited knowledge of the $D_{s}$ branching fractions.

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Observation of the Decay B^{-} \rightarrow D_{s}^{(*)+} K^{-} \ell^{-} \barν_{\ell}

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