Measurement of j / psi production in continuum e+ e- annihilations near s**(1/2) = 10.6-GeV

The BaBar collaboration Aubert, Bernard ; Boutigny, D. ; Gaillard, J.M. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 87 (2001) 162002, 2001.
Inspire Record 558091 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.19450

The production of $J/\psi$ mesons in continuum $e^+e^-$ annihilations has been studied with the BABAR detector at energies near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance, approximately 10.6 GeV. The mesons are distinguished from $J/\psi$ production in B decays through their center-of-mass momentum and energy. We measure the cross section $e^+e^-\to J/\psi X$ to be $2.52\pm 0.21\pm 0.21$ pb: for momentum above 2 GeV/c, it is $1.87\pm 0.10\pm 0.15$ pb. We set a 90% confidence level upper limit on the branching fraction for direct $\Upsilon(4S)$\to J/\psi X$ decays at $4.7\times 10^{-4}$.

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Cross section measurement.


Measurement of CP violating asymmetries in B0 decays to CP eigenstates

The BaBar collaboration Aubert, Bernard ; Boutigny, D. ; De Bonis, I. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 86 (2001) 2515-2522, 2001.
Inspire Record 553002 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.50471

We present measurements of time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in neutral B decays to several CP eigenstates. The measurement uses a data sample of 23 million Upsilon(4S)-->B-anti-B decays collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B Factory at SLAC. In this sample, we find events where one neutral B meson is fully reconstructed in a CP eigenstate containing charmonium and the flavor of the other neutral B meson is determined from its decay products. The amplitude of the CP-violating asymmetry, which in the Standard Model is proportional to sin2beta, is derived from the decay time distributions in such events. The result is sin2beta=0.34 +/- 0.20 (stat) +/- 0.05 (syst).

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Standard Model predicts the time-dependent rate asymmetry as follows: A(t) = (B0(t)-BBAR0(t))/(B0(t)+BBAR0(t)) = SIN(2*BETA)*SIN(Delta(M)*t), where Delta(M) is the mass difference between the two B0 mass eigenstates. The total systematic error equals +0.50 -0.46.