Observation of $B_s^0\to {\overline{D}}^{\ast 0}\varphi$ and search for $B^0\to {\overline{D}}^0\varphi$ decays

Abstract

The first observation of the $B_s^0\to {\overline{D}}^{\ast 0}\varphi$ decay is reported, with a significance of more than seven standard deviations, from an analysis of $pp$ collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb${}^{-1}$, collected with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of $7$ and $8$ TeV. The branching fraction is measured relative to that of the topologically similar decay $B^0\to {\overline{D}}^0{\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ and is found to be $\mathcal{B}(B_s^0\to {\overline{D}}^{\ast 0}\varphi )=(3.7\pm 0.5\pm 0.3\pm 0.2)\times 10^{-5}$, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic, and the third from the branching fraction of the $B^0\to {\overline{D}}^0{\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ decay. The fraction of longitudinal polarisation in this decay is measured to be $f_{\mathrm{L}}=(73\pm 15\pm 3)\%$. The most precise determination of the branching fraction for the $B_s^0\to {\overline{D}}^0\varphi$ decay is also obtained, $\mathcal{B}(B_s^0\to {\overline{D}}^0\varphi )=(3.0\pm 0.3\pm 0.2\pm 0.2)\times 10^{-5}$. An upper limit, $\mathcal{B}(B^0\to {\overline{D}}^0\varphi )<2.0(2.2)\times 10^{-6}$ at $90\%$ (95\%) confidence level is set. A constraint on the $\omega -\varphi$ mixing angle $\delta$ is set at $|\delta |<5.2^{\circ }(5.5^{\circ })$ at $90\%$ ($95\%$) confidence level.

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