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First Observation of the Decay B →J/ψϕK

  • A. Anastassov
  • , J. E. Duboscq
  • , K. K. Gan
  • , C. Gwon
  • , T. Hart
  • , K. Honscheid
  • , D. Hufnagel
  • , H. Kagan
  • , R. Kass
  • , J. Lorenc
  • , T. K. Pedlar
  • , H. Schwarthoff
  • , E. von Toerne
  • , M. M. Zoeller
  • , S. J. Richichi
  • , H. Severini
  • , P. Skubic
  • , A. Undrus
  • , S. Chen
  • , J. Fast
  • J. W. Hinson, J. Lee, N. Menon, D. H. Miller, E. I. Shibata, I. P.J. Shipsey, V. Pavlunin, D. Cronin-Hennessy, Y. Kwon, A. L. Lyon, E. H. Thorndike, H. Marsiske, M. L. Perl, V. Savinov, D. Ugolini, X. Zhou, T. E. Coan, V. Fadeyev, I. Korolkov, Y. Maravin, I. Narsky, R. Stroynowski, J. Ye, T. Wlodek, M. Artuso, R. Ayad, C. Boulahouache, K. Bukin, S. Anderson, R. Mahapatra, CLEO Collaboration

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Abstract

We present the first observation of the decay B →J/ψϕK Using 9.6 ×106BB¯meson pairs collected with the CLEO detector, we have observed ten fully reconstructed B →J/ψϕK candidates, whereas the estimated background is 0.5 ±0.2event. We obtain a branching fraction of B(B →J/ψϕK)=(8.8−3.0+3.5[stat]±1.3[syst])×10−5This is the first observed B meson decay requiring the creation of an additional ss¯quark pair.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1393-1397
Number of pages5
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume84
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000

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