Abstract
From a sample of 232 million Upsilon(4S)--> B B-bar events collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B Factory in 1999--2004, we measure the B- --> D0 K*-(892) decay branching fraction using events where the K*- is reconstructed in the K0_S pi- mode and the D0 in the K- pi+, K- pi+ pi0, and K- pi+ pi+ pi- channels:
B(B- --> D0 K*-(892)) = 5.29 +/- 0.30(stat) +/- 0.34 (syst)) X 10-4.