{ "id": "hep-ex/9706019", "version": "v3", "published": "1997-06-25T12:44:44.000Z", "updated": "1998-03-12T20:13:59.000Z", "title": "A New Measurement of $B\\to D^{*}π$ Branching Fractions", "authors": [ "G. Brandenburg" ], "comment": "12 page postscript file, postscript file also available through http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS", "journal": "Phys.Rev.Lett.80:2762-2766,1998", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2762", "categories": [ "hep-ex" ], "abstract": "The decays Upsilon(4S) -> BB, followed by B -> D* pi and D* -> D pi, permit reconstruction of all kinematic quantities that describe the sequence without reconstruction of the D, with reasonably low backgrounds. Using an integrated e+e- luminosity of 3.1 fb^{-1} accumulated at the Upsilon(4S) by the CLEO-II detector, we report measurements of BR(B0 -> D*+ pi-) = (2.81 +/- 0.11 +/- 0.21 +/- 0.05) x 10^{-3} and BR(B- -> D*0 pi-) = (4.34 +/- 0.33 +/- 0.34 +/- 0.18) x 10^{-3}.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "1998-03-12T20:13:59.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "branching fractions", "decays upsilon", "permit reconstruction", "kinematic quantities", "reasonably low backgrounds" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett." }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 12, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 444744 } } }