Angular analysis of $B^0\to D^{\ast -}{D}_s^{\ast +}$ with $D_s^{\ast +}\to D_s^{+}\gamma$ decays

Abstract

The first full angular analysis of the $B^0\to D^{\ast -}{D}_s^{\ast +}$ decay is performed using 6 fb${}^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data collected with the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The $D_s^{\ast +}\to D_s^{+}\gamma$ and $D^{\ast -}\to {\bar{D}}^0{\pi }^{-}$ vector meson decays are used with the subsequent $D_s^{+}\to K^{+}{K}^{-}{\pi }^{+}$ and ${\bar{D}}^0\to K^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ decays. All helicity amplitudes and phases are measured, and the longitudinal polarisation fraction is determined to be $f_{\mathrm{L}}=0.578\pm 0.010\pm 0.011$ with world-best precision, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. The pattern of helicity amplitude magnitudes is found to align with expectations from quark-helicity conservation in $B$ decays. The ratio of branching fractions $[\mathcal{B}(B^0\to D^{\ast -}{D}_s^{\ast +})\times \mathcal{B}(D_s^{\ast +}\to D_s^{+}\gamma )]/\mathcal{B}(B^0\to D^{\ast -}{D}_s^{+})$ is measured to be $2.045\pm 0.022\pm 0.071$ with world-best precision. In addition, the first observation of the Cabibbo-suppressed $B_s^0\to D^{\ast -}{D}_s^{+}$ decay is made with a significance of seven standard deviations. The branching fraction ratio $\mathcal{B}(B_s^0\to D^{\ast -}{D}_s^{+})/\mathcal{B}(B^0\to D^{\ast -}{D}_s^{+})$ is measured to be $0.049\pm 0.006\pm 0.003\pm 0.002$, where the third uncertainty is due to limited knowledge of the ratio of fragmentation fractions.

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