24–31 Jul 2009
Wayne State University
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Evidence for the Decay Bs to Ds(*) Ds(*) and a Measurement of DeltaGamma(CP)_s/Gamma_s

28 Jul 2009, 16:54
24m
McGregor Center, Room C

McGregor Center, Room C

Wayne State University

Speaker

Sung Woo Youn (Northwestern U./Fermilab)

Description

We search for the semi-inclusive process Bs to Ds(*)Ds(*) using 2.8 fb-1 of ppbar collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV recorded by the D0 detector operating at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We observe 26.6 pm 8.4 signal events with a significance above background of 3.2 standard deviations yielding a branching ratio of 0.035 pm 0.010 (stat) pm 0.011(syst). Under certain theoretical assumptions, these double-charm final states saturate CP-even eigenstates in the Bs decays resulting in a width difference of DeltaGamma(CP)_s/Gamma_s = 0.072 pm 0.021 (stat) pm 0.022 (syst).

Authors

Aurelio Juste (Fermilab) Horst Wahl (Florida State University) Stefan Soldner-Rembold (University of Manchester)

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