Measurement of the Branching Fractions ofB¯→D**ℓ−ν¯ℓDecays in Events Tagged by a Fully ReconstructedBMeson

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Kovalskyi,M Negrini,C P O’Grady,E Luppi,K Yi,P D Jackson,C Angelini,K Yu Todyshev ,V Lüth ,H Kim,Yu I Skovpen,T Latham ,Ch Thiebaux ,M Nagel,M Bóna ,E Graugés ,J Firmino Da Costa,S Li,C Campagnari,D H Wright,J Nash ,M Karbach,S Spanier ,J Ilić ,M Bomben,M Pelliccioni,H Liu,D Müller ,W F Mader,Y Y Gao,V Blinov ,A Salnikov ,J M Thompson,N López-March ,C Buchanan,R Waldi,K Tackmann,P K Behera,R Covarelli,G Hamel De Monchenault,D Wright ,B Meadows ,A Gaz,M Margoni,B A Petersen,M Charles ,K Mishra,T Tanabe

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.101.261802

Abstract

We report a measurement of the branching fractions of B-->D**(l) nu(l), decays based on 417 fb(-1) of data collected at the Y(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- storage rings. Events are selected by full reconstructing one of the B mesons in a hadronic decay mode. A fit to the invariant mass differences m(D(*) pi)- m(D(*)) is performed to extract the signal yields of the different D** states. We observe the B-->D**l(-1)nu(l) decay modes corresponding to the four D states predicted by heavy quark symmetry with a significance greater than 5 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties.

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