Measurement of branching fractions and charge asymmetries for exclusive B decays to charmonium

• Published in: Physical review letters 2005-04, Vol.94 (14), p.141801-141801, Article 141801
• Main Authors: Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, J P, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges-Pous, E, Palano, A, Pompili, A, Chen, J C, Qi, N D, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, Y S, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, G S, Borgland, A W, Breon, A B, Brown, D N, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, R N, Charles, E, Day, C T, Gill, M S, Gritsan, A V, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, R G, Kadel, R W, Kadyk, J, Kerth, L T, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lynch, G, Mir, L M, Oddone, P J, Orimoto, T J, Pripstein, M, Roe, N A, Ronan, M T, Wenzel, W A, Barrett, M, Ford, K E, Harrison, T J, Hart, A J, Hawkes, C M, Morgan, S E, Watson, A T, Fritsch, M, Goetzen, K, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, J T, Chevalier, N, Cottingham, W N, Kelly, M P, Latham, T E, Wilson, F F, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Hearty, C, Knecht, N S, Mattison, T S, McKenna, J A, Thiessen, D, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, A E, Blinov, V E, Druzhinin, V P, Golubev, V B, Ivanchenko, V N, Kravchenko, E A, Onuchin, A P, Serednyakov, S I, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, E P, Yushkov, A N, Best, D, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, A J, Mandelkern, M, Mommsen, R K, Roethel, W, Stoker, D P, Buchanan, C, Hartfiel, B L, Weinstein, A J R, Foulkes, S D
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Experiments; Física de partícules; High Energy Physics - Experiment; Particle physics; Physics
• ISSN: 0031-9007; 1079-7114
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.141801

We report measurements of branching fractions and charge asymmetries of exclusive decays of neutral and charged B mesons into two-body final states containing a charmonium state and a light strange meson. The charmonium mesons considered are J/psi, psi(2S) and chi(c1), and the light meson is either K or K(*). We use a sample of about 124x10(6) BB pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II storage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.