Study of B+/ --> J/psi pi+/- and B+/ -->J/psi K+/- decays: measurement of the ratio of branching fractions and search for direct CP violation

B Aubert; R Barate; D Boutigny; F Couderc; J-M Gaillard; A Hicheur; Y Karyotakis; J P Lees; V Tisserand; A Zghiche; A Palano; A Pompili; J C Chen; N D Qi; G Rong; P Wang; Y S Zhu; G Eigen; I Ofte; B Stugu; G S Abrams; A W Borgland; A B Breon; D N Brown; J Button-Shafer; R N Cahn; E Charles; C T Day; M S Gill; A V Gritsan; Y Groysman; R G Jacobsen; R W Kadel; J Kadyk; L T Kerth; Yu G Kolomensky; G Kukartsev; C LeClerc; M E Levi; G Lynch; L M Mir; P J Oddone; T J Orimoto; M Pripstein; N A Roe; M T Ronan; V G Shelkov; A V Telnov; W A Wenzel; K Ford; T J Harrison; C M Hawkes; S E Morgan; A T Watson; N K Watson; M Fritsch; K Goetzen; T Held; H Koch; B Lewandowski; M Pelizaeus; M Steinke; J T Boyd; N Chevalier; W N Cottingham; M P Kelly; T E Latham; F F Wilson; K Abe; T Cuhadar-Donszelmann; C Hearty; T S Mattison; J A McKenna; D Thiessen; P Kyberd; L Teodorescu; V E Blinov; A D Bukin; V P Druzhinin; V B Golubev; V N Ivanchenko; E A Kravchenko; A P Onuchin; S I Serednyakov; Yu I Skovpen; E P Solodov; A N Yushkov; D Best; M Bruinsma; M Chao; I Eschrich; D Kirkby; A J Lankford; M Mandelkern; R K Mommsen; W Roethel; D P Stoker; C Buchanan; B L Hartfiel; J W Gary; B C Shen; K Wang; D del Re; H K Hadavand; E J Hill; D B MacFarlane; H P Paar; Sh Rahatlou; V Sharma; J W Berryhill; C Campagnari; B Dahmes; S L Levy; O Long; A Lu; M A Mazur; J D Richman; W Verkerke; T W Beck; A M Eisner; C A Heusch; W S Lockman; T Schalk; R E Schmitz; B A Schumm; A Seiden; P Spradlin; D C Williams; M G Wilson; J Albert; E Chen; G P Dubois-Felsmann; A Dvoretskii; D G Hitlin; I Narsky; T Piatenko; F C Porter; A Ryd; A Samuel; S Yang; S Jayatilleke; G Mancinelli; B T Meadows; M D Sokoloff; T Abe; F Blanc; P Bloom; S Chen; P J Clark; W T Ford; U Nauenberg; A Olivas; P Rankin; J G Smith; W C van Hoek; L Zhang; J L Harton; T Hu; A Soffer; W H Toki; R J Wilson; D Altenburg; T Brandt; J Brose; T Colberg; M Dickopp; E Feltresi; A Hauke; H M Lacker; E Maly; R Müller-Pfefferkorn; R Nogowski; S Otto; J Schubert; K R Schubert; R Schwierz; B Spaan; D Bernard; G R Bonneaud; F Brochard; P Grenier; Ch Thiebaux; G Vasileiadis; M Verderi; D J Bard; A Khan; D Lavin; F Muheim; S Playfer; M Andreotti; V Azzolini; D Bettoni; C Bozzi; R Calabrese; G Cibinetto; E Luppi; M Negrini; A Sarti; E Treadwell; R Baldini-Ferroli; A Calcaterra; R de Sangro; G Finocchiaro; P Patteri; M Piccolo; A Zallo; A Buzzo; R Capra; R Contri; G Crosetti; M Lo Vetere; M Macri; M R Monge; S Passaggio; C Patrignani; E Robutti; A Santroni; S Tosi; S Bailey; G Brandenburg; M Morii; E Won; R S Dubitzky; U Langenegger; W Bhimji; D A Bowerman; P D Dauncey; U Egede; J R Gaillard; G W Morton; J A Nash; G P Taylor; G J Grenier; S-J Lee; U Mallik; J Cochran; H B Crawley; J Lamsa; W T Meyer; S Prell; E I Rosenberg; J Yi; M Davier; G Grosdidier; A Höcker; S Laplace; F Le Diberder; V Lepeltier; A M Lutz; T C Petersen; S Plaszczynski; M H Schune; L Tantot; G Wormser; C H Cheng; D J Lange; M C Simani; D M Wright; A J Bevan; J P Coleman; J R Fry; E Gabathuler; 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doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.241802

Study of B+/ --> J/psi pi+/- and B+/ -->J/psi K+/- decays: measurement of the ratio of branching fractions and search for direct CP violation

Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Jun 18;92(24):241802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.241802. Epub 2004 Jun 18.

Authors

B Aubert¹, R Barate, D Boutigny, F Couderc, J-M Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, J P Lees, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, A Palano, A Pompili, J C Chen, N D Qi, G Rong, P Wang, Y S Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, G S Abrams, A W Borgland, A B Breon, D N Brown, J Button-Shafer, R N Cahn, E Charles, C T Day, M S Gill, A V Gritsan, Y Groysman, R G Jacobsen, R W Kadel, J Kadyk, L T Kerth, Yu G Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, C LeClerc, M E Levi, G Lynch, L M Mir, P J Oddone, T J Orimoto, M Pripstein, N A Roe, M T Ronan, V G Shelkov, A V Telnov, W A Wenzel, K Ford, T J Harrison, C M Hawkes, S E Morgan, A T Watson, N K Watson, M Fritsch, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, M Steinke, J T Boyd, N Chevalier, W N Cottingham, M P Kelly, T E Latham, F F Wilson, K Abe, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, T S Mattison, J A McKenna, D Thiessen, P Kyberd, L Teodorescu, V E Blinov, A D Bukin, V P Druzhinin, V B Golubev, V N Ivanchenko, E A Kravchenko, A P Onuchin, S I Serednyakov, Yu I Skovpen, E P Solodov, A N Yushkov, D Best, M Bruinsma, M Chao, I Eschrich, D Kirkby, A J Lankford, M Mandelkern, R K Mommsen, W Roethel, D P Stoker, C Buchanan, B L Hartfiel, J W Gary, B C Shen, K Wang, D del Re, H K Hadavand, E J Hill, D B MacFarlane, H P Paar, Sh Rahatlou, V Sharma, J W Berryhill, C Campagnari, B Dahmes, S L Levy, O Long, A Lu, M A Mazur, J D Richman, W Verkerke, T W Beck, A M Eisner, C A Heusch, W S Lockman, T Schalk, R E Schmitz, B A Schumm, A Seiden, P Spradlin, D C Williams, M G Wilson, J Albert, E Chen, G P Dubois-Felsmann, A Dvoretskii, D G Hitlin, I Narsky, T Piatenko, F C Porter, A Ryd, A Samuel, S Yang, S Jayatilleke, G Mancinelli, B T Meadows, M D Sokoloff, T Abe, F Blanc, P Bloom, S Chen, P J Clark, W T Ford, U Nauenberg, A Olivas, P Rankin, J G Smith, W C van Hoek, L Zhang, J L Harton, T Hu, A Soffer, W H Toki, R J Wilson, D Altenburg, T Brandt, J Brose, T Colberg, M Dickopp, E Feltresi, A Hauke, H M Lacker, E Maly, R Müller-Pfefferkorn, R Nogowski, S Otto, J Schubert, K R Schubert, R Schwierz, B Spaan, D Bernard, G R Bonneaud, F Brochard, P Grenier, Ch Thiebaux, G Vasileiadis, M Verderi, D J Bard, A Khan, D Lavin, F Muheim, S Playfer, M Andreotti, V Azzolini, D Bettoni, C Bozzi, R Calabrese, G Cibinetto, E Luppi, M Negrini, A Sarti, E Treadwell, R Baldini-Ferroli, A Calcaterra, R de Sangro, G Finocchiaro, P Patteri, M Piccolo, A Zallo, A Buzzo, R Capra, R Contri, G Crosetti, M Lo Vetere, M Macri, M R Monge, S Passaggio, C Patrignani, E Robutti, A Santroni, S Tosi, S Bailey, G Brandenburg, M Morii, E Won, R S Dubitzky, U Langenegger, W Bhimji, D A Bowerman, P D Dauncey, U Egede, J R Gaillard, G W Morton, J A Nash, G P Taylor, G J Grenier, S-J Lee, U Mallik, J Cochran, H B Crawley, J Lamsa, W T Meyer, S Prell, E I Rosenberg, J Yi, M Davier, G Grosdidier, A Höcker, S Laplace, F Le Diberder, V Lepeltier, A M Lutz, T C Petersen, S Plaszczynski, M H Schune, L Tantot, G Wormser, C H Cheng, D J Lange, M C Simani, D M Wright, A J Bevan, J P Coleman, J R Fry, E Gabathuler, R Gamet, M Kay, R J Parry, D J Payne, R J Sloane, C Touramanis, J J Back, P F Harrison, G B Mohanty, C L Brown, G Cowan, R L Flack, H U Flaecher, S George, M G Green, A Kurup, C E Marker, T R McMahon, S Ricciardi, F Salvatore, G Vaitsas, M A Winter, D Brown, C L Davis, J Allison, N R Barlow, R J Barlow, P A Hart, M C Hodgkinson, G D Lafferty, A J Lyon, J C Williams, A Farbin, W D Hulsbergen, A Jawahery, D Kovalskyi, C K Lae, V Lillard, D A Roberts, G Blaylock, C Dallapiccola, K T Flood, S S Hertzbach, R Kofler, V B Koptchev, T B Moore, S Saremi, H Staengle, S Willocq, R Cowan, G Sciolla, F Taylor, R K Yamamoto, D J J Mangeol, P M Patel, S H Robertson, A Lazzaro, F Palombo, J M Bauer, L Cremaldi, V Eschenburg, R Godang, R Kroeger, J Reidy, D A Sanders, D J Summers, H W Zhao, S Brunet, D Côté, P Taras, H Nicholson, C Cartaro, N Cavallo, F Fabozzi, C Gatto, L Lista, D Monorchio, P Paolucci, D Piccolo, C Sciacca, M Baak, G Raven, L Wilden, C P Jessop, J M LoSecco, T A Gabriel, T Allmendinger, B Brau, K K Gan, K Honscheid, D Hufnagel, H Kagan, R Kass, T Pulliam, R Ter-Antonyan, Q K Wong, J Brau, R Frey, O Igonkina, C T Potter, N B Sinev, D Strom, E Torrence, F Colecchia, A Dorigo, F Galeazzi, M Margoni, M Morandin, M Posocco, M Rotondo, F Simonetto, R Stroili, G Tiozzo, C Voci, M Benayoun, H Briand, J Chauveau, P David, Ch de laVassière, L Del Buono, O Hamon, M J J John, Ph Leruste, J Ocariz, M Pivk, L Roos, S T'Jampens, G Therin, P F Manfredi, V Re, P K Behera, L Gladney, Q H Guo, J Panetta, F Anulli, M Biasini, I M Peruzzi, M Pioppi, C Angelini, G Batignani, S Bettarini, M Bondioli, F Bucci, G Calderini, M Carpinelli, V Del Gamba, F Forti, M A Giorgi, A Lusiani, G Marchiori, F Martinez-Vidal, M Morganti, N Neri, E Paoloni, M Rama, G Rizzo, F Sandrelli, J Walsh, M Haire, D Judd, K Paick, D E Wagoner, N Danielson, P Elmer, C Lu, V Miftakov, J Olsen, A J S Smith, E W Varnes, F Bellini, G Cavoto, R Faccini, F Ferrarotto, F Ferroni, M Gaspero, L Li Gioi, M A Mazzoni, S Morganti, M Pierini, G Piredda, F Safai Tehrani, C Voena, S Christ, G Wagner, R Waldi, T Adye, N De Groot, B Franek, N I Geddes, G P Gopal, E O Olaiya, S M Xella, R Aleksan, S Emery, A Gaidot, S F Ganzhur, P-F Giraud, G Hamel de Monchenault, W Kozanecki, M Langer, M Legendre, G W London, B Mayer, G Schott, G Vasseur, Ch Yèche, M Zito, M V Purohit, A W Weidemann, F X Yumiceva, D Aston, R Bartoldus, N Berger, A M Boyarski, O L Buchmueller, M R Convery, M Cristinziani, G De Nardo, D Dong, J Dorfan, D Dujmic, W Dunwoodie, E E Elsen, R C Field, T Glanzman, S J Gowdy, T Hadig, V Halyo, T Hryn'ova, W R Innes, M H Kelsey, P Kim, M L Kocian, D W G S Leith, J Libby, S Luitz, V Luth, H L Lynch, H Marsiske, R Messner, D R Muller, C P O'Grady, V E Ozcan, A Perazzo, M Perl, S Petrak, B N Ratcliff, A Roodman, A A Salnikov, R H Schindler, J Schwiening, G Simi, A Snyder, A Soha, J Stelzer, D Su, M K Sullivan, J Va'vra, S R Wagner, M Weaver, A J R Weinstein, W J Wisniewski, M Wittgen, D H Wright, C C Young, P R Burchat, A J Edwards, T I Meyer, B A Petersen, C Roat, S Ahmed, M S Alam, J A Ernst, M A Saeed, M Saleem, F R Wappler, W Bugg, M Krishnamurthy, S M Spanier, R Eckmann, H Kim, J L Ritchie, A Satpathy, R F Schwitters, J M Izen, I Kitayama, X C Lou, S Ye, F Bianchi, M Bona, F Gallo, D Gamba, C Borean, L Bosisio, F Cossutti, G Della Ricca, S Dittongo, S Grancagnolo, L Lanceri, P Poropat, L Vitale, G Vuagnin, R S Panvini, Sw Banerjee, C M Brown, D Fortin, P D Jackson, R Kowalewski, J M Roney, H R Band, S Dasu, M Datta, A M Eichenbaum, J J Hollar, J R Johnson, P E Kutter, H Li, R Liu, F Di Lodovico, A Mihalyi, A K Mohapatra, Y Pan, R Prepost, S J Sekula, P Tan, J H von Wimmersperg-Toeller, J Wu, S L Wu, Z Yu, H Neal; BABAR Collaboration

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux, France.

PMID: 15245076
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.241802

Abstract

We study B+/ --> J/psi pi(+/-) and B+/ --> J/psi K+/- decays in a sample of about 89 x 10(6) BB pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B factory at SLAC. We observe a signal of 244+/-20 B+/ --> J/psi pi(+/-) events and determine the ratio B(B+/ --> J/psi pi(+/-))/B(B+/ --> J/psi K+/-) to be [5.37+/-0.45(stat)+/-0.11(syst)]%. The charge asymmetries for the B+/ --> J/psi pi(+/-) and B+/ --> J/psi K+/- decays are determined to be A(pi)=0.123+/-0.085(stat)+/-0.004(syst) and A(K)=0.030+/-0.015(stat)+/-0.006(syst), respectively.