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Relative rates of B meson decays into psi(2S) and J/psi mesons. / Collaboration, D0; Bertram, Iain; Borissov, Guennadi et al.
In: Physical Review D, Vol. 79, No. 11, 111102(R), 10.06.2009.

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Collaboration, D, Bertram, I, Borissov, G, Fox, H, Ratoff, P, Rakitin, A, Love, P & Sopczak, A 2009, 'Relative rates of B meson decays into psi(2S) and J/psi mesons', Physical Review D, vol. 79, no. 11, 111102(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.79.111102

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Collaboration, D., Bertram, I., Borissov, G., Fox, H., Ratoff, P., Rakitin, A., Love, P., & Sopczak, A. (2009). Relative rates of B meson decays into psi(2S) and J/psi mesons. Physical Review D, 79(11), Article 111102(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.79.111102

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Collaboration D, Bertram I, Borissov G, Fox H, Ratoff P, Rakitin A et al. Relative rates of B meson decays into psi(2S) and J/psi mesons. Physical Review D. 2009 Jun 10;79(11): 111102(R). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.111102

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Collaboration, D0 ; Bertram, Iain ; Borissov, Guennadi et al. / Relative rates of B meson decays into psi(2S) and J/psi mesons. In: Physical Review D. 2009 ; Vol. 79, No. 11.

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abstract = "We report on a study of the relative rates of B meson decays into psi(2S) and J/psi mesons using 1.3 fb^-1 of pbar p collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV recorded by the D0 detector operating at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We observe the channels B^0_s -> psi(2S)phi, B^0_s -> J/psi phi, B^+/- -> psi(2S) K^+/-, and B^+/- -> J/psi K^+/- and we measure the relative branching fractions for these channels to be B(B^0_s -> psi(2S)phi)/B(B^0_s -> J/psi phi) = 0.55 +/- 0.11 (stat) +/- 0.07 (syst) +/- 0.06 (B), B(B^+/- -> psi(2S) K^+/-)/B(B^+/- -> J/psi K^+/-) = 0.65 +/- 0.04 (stat) +/- 0.03 (syst) +/- 0.07 (B) where the final error corresponds to the uncertainty in the J/psi and psi(2S) branching ratio into two muons.",
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AU - Rakitin, Alexander

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