Measurement of the B → Xℓ+ℓ- Branching fraction and search for direct CP violation from a sum of exclusive final states

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 21, 2014, Pages

  Lees, J P ^a   Poireau, V ^a   Tisserand, V ^a   Grauges, E ^b   Palano, A ^c,d   Eigen, G ^e   Stugu, B ^e   Brown, D N ^f   Kerth, L T ^f   Kolomensky, Yu G ^f   Lee, M J ^f   Lynch, G ^f   Koch, H ^g   Schroeder, T ^g   Hearty, C ^h   Mattison, T S ^h   McKenna, J A ^h   So, R Y ^h   Khan, A ⁱ   Blinov, V E ^j,l   Buzykaev, A R ^j   Druzhinin, V P ^j,k   Golubev, V B ^j,k   Kravchenko, E A ^j,k   Onuchin, A P ^j,l   Serednyakov, S I ^j,k   Skovpen, Yu I ^j,k   Solodov, E P ^j,k   Todyshev, K Yu ^j,k   Yushkov, A N ^j   Lankford, A J ^m   Mandelkern, M ^m   Dey, B ⁿ   Gary, J W ⁿ   Long, O ⁿ   Campagnari, C ^o   Franco Sevilla, M ^o   Hong, T M ^o   Kovalskyi, D ^o   Richman, J D ^o   West, C A ^o   Eisner, A M ^p   Lockman, W S ^p   Schumm, B A ^p   Seiden, A ^p   Chao, D S ^q   Cheng, C H ^q   Echenard, B ^q   Flood, K T ^q   Hitlin, D G ^q   Miyashita, T S ^q   Ongmongkolkul, P ^q   Porter, F C ^q   Andreassen, R ^r   Huard, Z ^r   Meadows, B T ^r   Pushpawela, B G ^r   Sokoloff, M D ^r   Sun, L ^r   Bloom, P C ^s   Ford, W T ^s   Gaz, A ^s   Nauenberg, U ^s   Smith, J G ^s   Wagner, S R ^s   Ayad, R ^t   Toki, W H ^t   Spaan, B ^u   Schwierz, R ^v   Bernard, D ^w   Verderi, M ^w   Playfer, S ^x   Bettoni, D ^y   Bozzi, C ^y   Calabrese, R ^y,z   Cibinetto, G ^y,z   Fioravanti, E ^y,z   Garzia, I ^y,z   Luppi, E ^y,z   Piemontese, L ^y   Santoro, V ^y   Calcaterra, A ^aa   De Sangro, R ^aa   Finocchiaro, G ^aa   Martellotti, S ^aa   Patteri, P ^aa   Peruzzi, I M ^aa   Piccolo, M ^aa   Rama, M ^aa   Zallo, A ^aa   Contri, R ^ab,ac   Guido, E ^ab,ac   Lo Vetere, M ^ab,ac   Monge, M R ^ab,ac   Passaggio, S ^ab   Patrignani, C ^ab,ac   Robutti, E ^ab   Bhuyan, B ^ad   Prasad, V ^ad   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI BARI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

ⁱ BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j BUDKER INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^k NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^l NOVOSIBIRSK STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^q CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^t Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^u TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^v DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^w LABORATOIRE LEPRINCE RINGUET   (France)

^x UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^y INFN SEZIONE DI FERRARA   (Italy)

^z UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^aa INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^ab INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^ad INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS;

BABAR DETECTOR; BRANCHING FRACTIONS; CP ASYMMETRIES; CP VIOLATIONS; HADRONIC SYSTEMS; LEPTON-FLAVOR; MEASUREMENTS OF; NEUTRAL CURRENTS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 84901938176     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.211802     Document Type: Article

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