Observation of B(0) --> D0pi(0) and B(0) -->D(*0)pi(0). Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We have studied the color-suppressed hadronic decays of neutral B mesons into the final states D*0pi(0). Using 9.67 x 10(6) BB pairs collected with the CLEO detector, we observe the decays B( 0) --> D0pi(0) and B( 0) -->D(*0)pi(0) with the branching fractions BB( 0) -->D0pi(0)) = (2.74(+0.36)(-0.32) +/- 0.55)x10(-4) and BB( 0) -->D(*0)pi(0)) = (2.20(+0.59)(-0.52) +/- 0.79)x10(-4). The first error is statistical and the second systematic. The statistical significance of the D0pi(0) signal is 12.1sigma ( 5.9sigma for D(*0)pi(0)). Utilizing the B( 0) -->D*0)pi(0) branching fractions we determine the strong phases delta(I,D(*)) between isospin 1/2 and 3/2 amplitudes in the Dpi and D*pi final states to be cosdelta(I,D) = 0.89 +/-0.08 and cosdelta(I,D*) = 0.89 +/- 0.08, respectively.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Coan, T. E., Gao, Y. S., Liu, F., Maravin, Y., Narsky, I., Stroynowski, R., ... CLEO Collaboration.

citation count

  • 43

complete list of authors

  • Coan, TE||Gao, YS||Liu, F||Maravin, Y||Narsky, I||Stroynowski, R||Ye, J||Artuso, M||Boulahouache, C||Bukin, K||Dambasuren, E||Mountain, R||Skwarnicki, T||Stone, S||Wang, JC||Mahmood, AH||Csorna, SE||Danko, I||Xu, Z||Bonvicini, G||Cinabro, D||Dubrovin, M||McGee, S||Bornheim, A||Lipeles, E||Pappas, SP||Shapiro, A||Sun, WM||Weinstein, AJ||Masek, G||Paar, HP||Mahapatra, R||Morrison, RJ||Nelson, HN||Briere, RA||Chen, GP||Ferguson, T||Tatishvili, G||Vogel, H||Adam, NE||Alexander, JP||Bebek, C||Berkelman, K||Blanc, F||Boisvert, V||Cassel, DG||Drell, PS||Duboscq, JE||Ecklund, KM||Ehrlich, R||Gibbons, L||Gittelman, B||Gray, SW||Hartill, DL||Heltsley, BK||Hsu, L||Jones, CD||Kandaswamy, J||Kreinick, DL||Magerkurth, A||Mahlke-Krüger, H||Meyer, TO||Mistry, NB||Nordberg, E||Palmer, M||Patterson, JR||Peterson, D||Pivarski, J||Riley, D||Sadoff, AJ||Schwarthoff, H||Shepherd, MR||Thayer, JG||Urner, D||Valant-Spaight, B||Viehhauser, G||Warburton, A||Weinberger, M||Athar, SB||Avery, P||Prescott, C||Stoeck, H||Yelton, J||Brandenburg, G||Ershov, A||Kim, DY-J||Wilson, R||Benslama, K||Eisenstein, BI||Ernst, J||Gollin, GD||Hans, RM||Karliner, I||Lowrey, N||Marsh, MA||Plager, C||Sedlack, C||Selen, M||Thaler, JJ||Williams, J||Edwards, KW||Ammar, R||Besson, D||Zhao, X||Anderson, S||Frolov, VV||Kubota, Y||Lee, SJ||Li, SZ||Poling, R||Smith, A||Stepaniak, CJ||Urheim, J||Ahmed, S||Alam, MS||Jian, L||Saleem, M||Wappler, F||Eckhart, E||Gan, KK||Gwon, C||Hart, T||Honscheid, K||Hufnagel, D||Kagan, H||Kass, R||Pedlar, TK||Thayer, JB||von Toerne, E||Zoeller, MM||Richichi, SJ||Severini, H||Skubic, P||Dytman, SA||Nam, S||Savinov, V||Chen, S||Hinson, JW||Lee, J||Miller, DH||Pavlunin, V||Shibata, EI||Shipsey, IPJ||Cronin-Hennessy, D||Lyon, AL||Park, CS||Park, W||Thorndike, EH

publication date

  • February 2002