The inclusive production of charmonium mesons in B meson decay has been studied in a 20.3 (Formula presented) data set collected by the BABAR experiment operating at the (Formula presented) resonance. Branching fractions have been measured for the inclusive production of the charmonium mesons (Formula presented) (Formula presented) (Formula presented) and (Formula presented) The branching fractions are also presented as a function of the center-of-mass momentum of the mesons and of the helicity of the (Formula presented) © 2003 The American Physical Society.

We present results for the moments of observed spectra in inclusive semileptonic B-meson decays to charm hadrons B̄→Xc -ν̄. Moments of the hadronic-mass and the combined mass-and-energy spectra for different minimum electron or muon momenta between 0.8 and 1.9GeV/c are obtained from a sample of 232×106 Υ(4S)→BB̄ events, collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B-meson factory at SLAC. We also present a reevaluation of the moments of electron-energy spectra and partial decay fractions B(B̄→Xce-ν̄) for minimum electron momenta between 0.6 and 1.5GeV/c based on a sample of 51×106 Υ(4S)→BB̄ events. The measurements are used for the extraction of the total decay fraction, the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix element |Vcb|, the quark masses mb and mc, and four heavy-quark QCD parameters in the framework of a Heavy-Quark Expansion (HQE). We find B(B̄→Xc -ν̄)= (10.64±0.17±0.06)% and |Vcb|=(42.05±0.45±0.70) ×10-3. © 2010 The American Physical Society.

We have performed a search for the rare leptonic decay B+ --> mu+ nu_mu with data collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance by the BABAR experiment at the PEP-II storage ring. In a sample of 88.4 million BBbar pairs, we find no significant evidence for a signal and set an upper limit on the branching fraction BR(B+ --> mu+ nu_mu) < 6.6 x 10^{-6} at the 90% confidence level.

We report a measurement of the first four moments of the hadronic mass distribution in [Formula Presented] decays. The measurements are based on 89 million [Formula Presented] events where the hadronic decay of one of the B mesons is fully reconstructed and a charged lepton from the decay of the other B meson is identified. The moments are presented for minimum lepton momenta ranging from 0.9 to 1.6 GeV in the B rest frame. It is expected that such measurements will lead to improved determinations of [Formula Presented] and [Formula Presented] © 2004 The American Physical Society.

We study the rare B meson decays B±,0→J/ψK+K-K±,0, B±,0→J/ψφK±,0, and search for B0→J/ψφ, using 469×106 BB¯ events collected at the γ(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- asymmetric energy collider. We present new measurements of branching fractions and a study of the J/ψφ mass distribution in search of new charmonium-like states. In addition, we search for the decay B0→J/ψφ and find no evidence of a signal.

We perform a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of B0 → K0 S π+π- in order to extract the CP violation parameters of f0(980)K0 S and ρ0(770)K0 S and direct CP-asymmetries of Kz.ast;+(892)π-. The results are obtained from a data sample of (383 ± 3) × 106 BB decays, collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory at SLAC. The measured values of 2βeff in B0 decays to f0(980)K0S and ρ0(770)K0 S are (89+22-20 ± 5 ±8) and (37+19 -17 ± 5 ±6), respectively, where the first quoted uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic and the third is Dalitz plot signal model uncertainty. We measure the significance of 2βeff (f0(980)K0S) 6= 0 to be 4.3 σ. In decays to Kz.ast;(892)π we find ACP = -0.18 ± 0.10 ± 0.03 ± 0.03. The measured phase difference between the decay amplitudes of B0 → Kz.ast;+(892)π- and B0 → Kz.ast;-(892)π+ is (-164 ± 24 ± 12 ± 15). All results are preliminary.

We report the result of a search for the rare decay B0→γγ in 426fb-1 of data, corresponding to 226×106 B0B ̄0 pairs, collected on the Υ(4S) resonance at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider using the BABAR detector. We use a maximum likelihood fit to extract the signal yield and observe 21-12+13 signal events with a statistical significance of 1.8σ. This corresponds to a branching fraction B(B0→γγ)=(1.7±1.1(stat.) ±0.2(syst.))×10-7. Based on this result, we set a 90% confidence level upper limit of B(B0→γγ)<3.2×10 -7. © 2011 American Physical Society.

We present a measurement of the B0→Λ̄pπ- branching fraction performed using the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric e+e- collider. Based on a sample of 467×106 BB̄ pairs we measure B(B0→Λ̄pπ-)=[3.07±0.31(stat)±0.23(syst)] ×10-6. The measured differential spectrum as a function of the dibaryon invariant mass m(Λ̄p) shows a near-threshold enhancement similar to that observed in other baryonic B decays. We study the Λ̄ polarization as a function of Λ̄ energy in the B0 rest frame (EΛ̄*) and compare it with theoretical expectations of fully longitudinally right-polarized Λ̄ at large EΛ̄*. © 2009 The American Physical Society.

We report on the inclusive branching fractions of B- and of B̄0 mesons decaying to D0X, D̄0X, D+X, D-X, Ds+X, Ds-X, Λc+X, Λc-X, based on a sample of 88.9 × 106 BB̄ events recorded with the BABAR detector at the Υ (4S) resonance. Events are selected by completely reconstructing one B and searching for a reconstructed charmed particle in the rest of the event. We measure the number of charmed and of anticharmed particles per B decay and derive the total charm yield per B - decay nc- = 1.313 ± 0.037 ± 0.062-0.042+0.063 and per B̄0 decay n c0 = 1.276 ± 0.062 ± 0.058 -0.046+0.066, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, and the third reflects the charm branching-fraction uncertainties.

We present a Dalitz plot analysis of charmless B± decays to the final state π±π±π using a sample of (465±5) ×106 BB̄ pairs collected by the BABAR experiment at s=10.58GeV. We measure the branching fractions B(B±→π±π±π)= (15.2±0.6±1.2±0.4)×10-6, B(B±→ρ0(770) π±)=(8.1±0.7±1.2-1.1+0.4)×10-6, B(B±→f2(1270)π±)=(1.57±0.42±0.16-0.19+0.53) ×10-6, and B(B±→π±π±πnonresonant)=(5. 3±0.7±0.6-0.5+1.1)×10-6, where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and model-dependent, respectively. Measurements of branching fractions for the modes B±→ρ0(1450)π± and B±→f0(1370)π± are also presented. We observe no significant direct CP asymmetries for the above modes, and there is no evidence for the decays B±→f0(980)π±, B±→χc0π ±, or B±→χc2π±. © 2009 The American Physical Society.