Download or read book Hadronic B Decays to Open Charm at the BaBar Experiment written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using about 23M B[bar B] events collected in 1999-2000 with the BABAR detector, they report on the decays B[yields] D(*)[bar D](*)K and B[sup 0][yields] D*[sup+]D*[sup -]. The branching fractions of the low background decay modes B[sup 0][yields] D*[sup -] D(*)[sup 0]K[sup+] are determined to be[Beta](B[sup 0][yields] D*[sup -] D[sup 0]K[sup+])= (2.8[+-] 0.7[+-] 0.5) x 10[sup -3] and[Beta](B[sup 0][yields] D*[sup -]D*[sup 0]K[sup+])= (6.8[+-] 1.7[+-] 1.7) x 10[sup -3], where the first error quoted is statistical and the second systematic. Observation of a significant number of candidates in the color-suppressed decay mode B[sup+][yields] D*[sup+]D*[sup -] K[sup+] is reported with a branching fraction[Beta](B[sup+][yields] D*[sup+]D*[sup -] K[sup+])= (3.4[+-] 1.6[+-] 0.9) x 10[sup -3]. Decays of the type B[yields] D(*)[bar D](*) can be used to provide a measurement of the parameter sin2[beta] of the Unitarity Triangle. For this decay mode they measure a branching fraction of[Beta](B[sup 0][yields] D*[sup+]D*[sup -])= (8.0[+-] 1.6[+-] 1.2) x 10[sup -4].