Measurement of the B->Xsl+l- branching fraction and search for direct CP violation from a sum of exclusive final states
J. P. Lees
(1)
,
V. Poireau
(1)
,
V. Tisserand
(1)
,
N. Arnaud
(2)
,
M. Davier
(2)
,
D. Derkach
(2)
,
G. Grosdidier
(2)
,
F. Le Diberder
(2)
,
A.M. Lutz
(2)
,
B. Malaescu
(3)
,
P. Roudeau
(2)
,
M.H. Schune
(2)
,
A. Stocchi
(2)
,
G. Wormser
(2)
,
D. Bernard
(4)
,
M. Verderi
(4)
,
S. Emery
(5)
,
G. Hamel de Monchenault
(5)
,
G. Vasseur
(5)
,
Ch. Yèche
(5)
,
S. Akar
(3)
,
E. Ben-Haim
(3)
,
M. Bomben
(3)
,
G.R. Bonneaud
(3)
,
H. Briand
(3)
,
G. Calderini
(3)
,
J. Chauvau
(3)
,
O. Hamon
(3)
,
Ph. Leruste
(3)
,
G. Marchiori
(3)
,
J. Ocariz
(3)
,
S. Sitt
(3)
N. Arnaud
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- IdHAL : nicolas-arnaud
- ORCID : 0000-0001-6589-8673
G. Vasseur
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- PersonId : 745439
- IdHAL : georges-vasseur
E. Ben-Haim
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M. Bomben
- Fonction : Auteur
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- ORCID : 0000-0002-9807-861X
- IdRef : 242005462
G. Calderini
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- IdHAL : giovanni-calderini
- ORCID : 0000-0002-9495-9145
- IdRef : 172243211
G. Marchiori
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- IdHAL : giovanni-marchiori
- ORCID : 0000-0003-2655-7643
- IdRef : 180997203
Résumé
We present a measurement of the total branching fraction of the flavor-changing neutral-current process B->Xsl+l-, along with partial branching fractions in bins of dilepton and hadronic system (Xs) mass, using a sample of 471x10^6 Upsilon(4S)->BBbar events recorded with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II e+e- collider. B mesons are reconstructed by combining a dilepton pair, either e+e- or mu+mu-, with 10 different Xs final states containing exactly one charged or neutral kaon, two or fewer charged pions, and at most one pi0. Using a sum over these exclusive modes as the basis for extrapolation to the fully inclusive rate, we measure a lepton-flavor-averaged inclusive branching fraction BF(B->Xsl+l-) = (6.73 +0.70-0.64[stat] +0.34-0.25[exp syst] +/- 0.50[model syst])x10^-6 for m(l+l-)^2>0.1 GeV^2/c^4. Restricting our analysis exclusively to final states from which a decaying B meson's flavor can be inferred, we additionally report measurements of the direct CP asymmetry ACP in bins of dilepton mass; over the full dilepton mass range, we find ACP=0.04 +/- 0.11 +/- 0.01$ for a lepton-flavor-averaged sample.