Measurement of the branching fraction for the decay B^0 --> D^{*+}D^{*-}

dc.creatorAubert, B.
dc.date2001-07-22
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:28:42Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:28:42Z
dc.descriptionDecays of the type B --> D^{(*)} anti-D^{(*)} can be used to provide a measurement of the parameter sin2beta of the Unitarity Triangle that is complementary to the measurement derived from the mode B^0 --> J/psi K_s^0. In this document we report a measurement of the branching fraction for the decay B^0 --> D^{*+}D^{*-} with the BABAR detector. With data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.7 fb^{-1} collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance during 1999-2000, we have reconstructed 38 candidate signal events in the mode B^0 --> D^{*+}D^{*-} with an estimated background of 6.2+/-0.5 events. From these events, we determine the branching fraction to be BF(B^0 --> D^{*+}D^{*-}) = (8.0+/-1.6(stat)+/-1.2(syst))x10^{-4} (preliminary).
dc.description13 pages, 2 figures, conference paper submitted to LP01
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0107057
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0107057
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/97786
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Experiment
dc.titleMeasurement of the branching fraction for the decay B^0 --> D^{*+}D^{*-}
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