Measurements of the Decays $B^0 \to \bar{D}^0\proton\antiproton$, $B^0 \to \bar{D}^{*0}\proton\antiproton$, $B^0 \to D^{-}\proton\antiprotonπ^+$, and $B^0 \to D^{*-}\proton\antiprotonπ^+$

Abstract

We present measurements of branching fractions of $B^0$ decays to multi-body final states containing protons, based on 232 million ${\rm Y}(4S)\to B\bar{B}$ decays collected with the BaBar detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy $B$ factory. We measure the branching fractions ${\cal B}(B^0 \to \bar{D}^0\proton\antiproton)=(1.13\pm0.06\pm0.08)\times 10^{-4}$, ${\cal B}(B^0 \to \bar{D}^{*0}\proton\antiproton)=(1.01\pm0.10\pm0.09)\times 10^{-4}$, ${\cal B}(B^0 \to D^{-}\proton\antiprotonπ^+)=(3.38\pm0.14\pm0.29)\times 10^{-4}$, and ${\cal B}(B^0 \to D^{*-}\proton\antiprotonπ^+)=(4.81\pm0.22\pm0.44)\times 10^{-4}$ where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. We present a search for the charmed pentaquark state, ${\Theta }_c(3100)$ observed by H1 and put limits on the branching fraction ${\cal B} (B^0 \to Θ_c \antiprotonπ^+)\times{\cal B}(Θ_c \to D^{*-}\proton)<14\times10^{-6}$ and ${\cal B}(B^0 \to Θ_c \antiprotonπ^+)\times{\cal B}(Θ_c\to D^-\proton)<9\times10^{-6}$. Upon investigation of the decay structure of the above four $B^0$ decay modes, we see an enhancement at low $p\bar{p}$ mass and deviations from phase-space in the $\bar{D}\bar{p}$ and $\bar{D}p$ invariant mass spectra.

9 pages, 26 postscript figures, submitted to PRD-RC

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