Published September 1, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurements of the decays B0→D0pp, B0→D*0pp, B0→D-ppπ+, and B0→D*-ppπ+

  • 1. Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux (France)
  • 2. Universitat de Barcelona Fac. Fisica. Dept. ECM Avda Diagonal 647, 6a planta E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
  • 3. Universita di Bari, Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 4. Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100039 (China)
  • 5. University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)

Description

We present measurements of branching fractions of B0 decays to multibody final states containing protons, based on 232x106 Υ(4S)→BB decays collected with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory. We measure the branching fractions B(B0→D0pp)=(1.13±0.06±0.08)x10-4, B(B0→D*0pp)=(1.01±0.10±0.09)x10-4, B(B0→D-ppπ+)=(3.38±0.14±0.29)x10-4, and B(B0→D*-ppπ+)=(4.81±0.22±0.44)x10-4 where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. We present a search for the charmed pentaquark state, Θc(3100) observed by H1 and put limits on the branching fraction B(B0→Θcpπ+)xB(Θc→D*-p)<14x10-6 and B(B0→Θcpπ+)xB(Θc→D-p)<9x10-6. Upon investigation of the decay structure of the above four B0 decay modes, we see an enhancement at low pp mass and deviations from phase-space in the Dp and Dp invariant mass spectra

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
74
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 051101-051101.8
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2006 The American Physical Society