Measurement of baryon production inB -meson decay
Author(s) -
G. Crawford,
R. Fulton,
T. Jensen,
D. Johnson,
H. Kagan,
R. Kass,
R. Malchow,
F. Morrow,
J. Whitmore,
P. Wilson,
D. Bortoletto,
D. N. Brown,
J. Dominick,
R. L. McIlwain,
D. H. Miller,
M. Modesitt,
C. R. Ng,
S. F. Schaffner,
E. I. Shibata,
I. P. J. Shipsey,
M. Battle,
H. Kroha,
K. Sparks,
E. H. Thorndike,
C. H. Wang,
M. S. Alam,
I. J. Kim,
W. C. Li,
X. Lou,
B. Nemati,
V. Romero,
C. R. Sun,
P. -N. Wang,
M. M. Zoeller,
M. Goldberg,
T. Haupt,
N. Horwitz,
V. Jain,
R. Kennett,
M. D. Mestayer,
G. C. Moneti,
Y. Rozen,
P. Rubin,
T. Skwarnicki,
S. Stone,
M. Thusalidas,
W. M. Yao,
G. Zhu,
A. V. Barnes,
J. Bartelt,
S. E. Csorna,
T. Letson,
J. P. Alexander,
M. Artuso,
C. Bebek,
K. Berkelman,
D. Besson,
T. E. Browder,
D. G. Cassel,
E. Cheu,
D. M. Coffman,
P. S. Drell,
R. Ehrlich,
R. S. Galik,
M. Garcia-Sciveres,
B. Geiser,
B. Gittelman,
S. W. Gray,
D. L. Hartill,
B. K. Heltsley,
K. Honscheid,
J. Kandaswamy,
N. Katayama,
D. L. Kreinick,
J. D. Lewis,
G. S. Ludwig,
J. Masui,
J. Mevissen,
N. B. Mistry,
S. Nandi,
E. Nordberg,
C. P. O’Grady,
J. R. Patterson,
D. Peterson,
M. Pisharody,
D. Riley,
M. Sapper,
M. Selen,
A. Silverman,
H. M. Worden,
M. Worris,
A. J. Sadoff,
P. Avery,
A. Freyberger,
J. L. Rodriguez,
J. Yelton,
S. Henderson,
K. Kinoshita,
F. M. Pipkin,
M. Procario,
M. Saulnier,
R. J. Wilson,
J. Wolinski,
D. Xiao,
H. Yamamoto,
R. Ammar,
P. Baringer,
D. Coppage,
R. Davis,
Peter J. Haas,
M. Kelly,
N. Kwak,
H. Lam,
S. R. Ro,
Y. Kubota,
J. K. Nelson,
D. Perticone,
R. Poling,
S. Schrenk
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
physical review. d. particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/physical review. d. particles and fields
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1089-4918
pISSN - 0556-2821
DOI - 10.1103/physrevd.45.752
Subject(s) - physics , baryon , particle physics , branching fraction , lepton , meson , b meson , nuclear physics , branching (polymer chemistry) , spectral line , electron , quantum mechanics , materials science , composite material
Using the CLEO detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we observe {ital B}-meson decays to {Lambda}{sub {ital c}}{sup +} and report on improved measurements of inclusive branching fractions and momentum spectra of other baryons. For the inclusive decay {ital {bar B}}{r arrow}{Lambda}{sub {ital c}}{sup +}{ital X} with {Lambda}{sub {ital c}}{sup +}{r arrow}{ital pK}{sup {minus}}{pi}{sup +}, we find that the product branching fraction {ital B}({ital {bar B}}{r arrow}{Lambda}{sub {ital c}}{sup +}{ital X}){ital B}({Lambda}{sub {ital c}}{sup +}{r arrow}{ital pK}{sup {minus}}{pi}{sup +})=(0.273{plus minus}0.051{plus minus} 0.039)%. Our measured inclusive branching fractions to noncharmed baryons are {ital B}({ital B}{r arrow}{ital pX})=(8.0{plus minus}0.5{plus minus}0.3)%, {ital B}({ital B}{r arrow}{Lambda}{ital X})=(3.8{plus minus}0.4{plus minus}0.6)%, and {ital B}({ital B}{r arrow}{Xi}{sup {minus}}{ital X})=(0.27{plus minus}0.05{plus minus}0.04)%. From these rates and studies of baryon-lepton and baryon-antibaryon correlations in {ital B} decays, we have estimated the branching fraction {ital B}({ital {bar B}}{r arrow}{Lambda}{sub {ital c}}{sup +}{ital X}) to be (6.4{plus minus}0.8{plus minus}0.8)%. Combining these results, we calculate {ital B}({Lambda}{sub {ital c}}{sup +}{r arrow}{ital pK}{sup {minus}}{pi}{sup +}) to be (4.3{plus minus}1.0{plus minus}0.8)%.
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