First observation and measurement of the branching fraction for the decay $B^0_s \to D_s^{*\mp} K^{\pm}$

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LHCb-PAPER-2015-008
CERN-PH-EP-2015-081
arXiv:1503.09086 [PDF]

(Submitted on 31 Mar 2015)
JHEP 06 (2015) 130
Inspire 1357203

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Abstract

The first observation of the $B^0_s \to D_s^{*\mp} K^{\pm}$ decay is reported using 3.0$fb^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment. The $D_s^{*\mp}$ mesons are reconstructed through the decay chain $D_s^{*\mp} \to \gamma D_s^{\mp}(K^{\mp}K^{\pm}\pi^{\mp})$. The branching fraction relative to that for $B^0_s \to D_s^{*-} \pi^{+}$ is measured to be $0.068 \pm 0.005 ^{+0.003}_{-0.002}$, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. Using a recent measurement of $BR(B^0_s \to D_s^{*-} \pi^{+})$ the absolute branching fraction of $B^0_s \to D_s^{*\mp} K^{\pm}$ is measured as ( 16.3 $\pm$ 1.2 (stat) $^{+0.7}_{-0.5}$ (syst) $\pm$ 4.8 (norm) ) $\times$ 10$^{-5}$, where the third uncertainty is due to the uncertainty on the branching fraction of the normalisation channel.

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Feynman diagrams of the processes under study. The upper diagrams represent the two tree topologies ($b \rightarrow c$ and $b \rightarrow u$ transitions, respectively) by which a $ B ^0_ s $ meson decays into the $ D ^{\mp}_ s $ $ K ^\pm$ final state; the lower diagrams show the tree diagram of $ B ^0_ s $ $\rightarrow $ $ D ^{-}_ s $ $\pi ^+$ and the $ W $ -exchange topology of $ B ^0_ s $ $\rightarrow $ $ D ^{*-}_ s $ $ K ^+$ .	fig-1a.pdf [89 KiB] HiDef png [49 KiB] Thumbnail [25 KiB] *.C file
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(left) The $ K ^-$ $ K ^+$ $\pi ^-$ invariant mass and (right) mass difference $\Delta_{M}$ of the $ B ^0_ s $ $\rightarrow $ $ D ^{*-}_ s $ $\pi ^+$ candidates. The points represent data. On the right plot the solid line represents the signal expected from the simulations.	DsDeltaM.pdf [22 KiB] HiDef png [126 KiB] Thumbnail [60 KiB] *.C file
Invariant mass distribution of (top) $ B ^0_ s $ $\rightarrow $ $ D ^{-}_ s $ $\pi ^+$ and (bottom) $ B ^0_ s $ $\rightarrow $ $ D ^{\mp}_ s $ $ K ^\pm$ candidates with fit results superimposed. The fitted signal corresponding to the first observation of $ B ^0_ s $ $\rightarrow $ $ D ^{*\mp}_ s $ $ K ^\pm$ is shown by the dotted line in the lower plot.	fitPi-[..].pdf [37 KiB] HiDef png [303 KiB] Thumbnail [238 KiB] *.C file
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Distributions of (left) $\eta$ and (right) $p_{\rm T}$ of the photons for the $ D ^{-}_ s $ $\pi ^+$ (blue) and $ D ^{\mp}_ s $ $ K ^\mp$ (magenta) decays. Data, background-subtracted using the sPlot method, are represented by points, and simulations by solid lines.	datavs[..].pdf [19 KiB] HiDef png [155 KiB] Thumbnail [120 KiB] *.C file
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