A. Wolf

Investigation of Semileptonic {ital B} Meson Decays to {ital p} -Wave Charm Mesons

We have studied semileptonic B meson decays with a P-wave charm meson in the final state using 3.29 × 10 BB̄ events collected by the CLEO II detector at the Cornell Electron-positron Storage Ring. We find a value for the exclusive semileptonic product branching fraction: B(B− → D 1`ν̄`)B(D 1 → Dπ) = (0.373 ± 0.085 ± 0.052 ± 0.024)% and an upper limit for B(B− → D 2 `ν̄`)B(D 2 → Dπ) < 0.16% (90% C.L.). These results indicate that at least 20% of the total B− semileptonic rate is unaccounted for by the observed exclusive decays, B− → D`ν̄, B− → D`ν̄, B− → D 1`−ν̄, and B− → D 2 `−ν̄. (Submitted to Physical Review Letters) SLAC-PUB-9836 hep-ex/9708035 Work supported in part by Department of Energy Contract DE-AC03-76SF00515 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94309, USA A. Anastassov, J. E. Duboscq, D. Fujino, K. K. Gan, T. Hart, K. Honscheid, H. Kagan, R. Kass, J. Lee, M. B. Spencer, M. Sung, A. Undrus, R. Wanke, A. Wolf, M. M. Zoeller, B. Nemati, S. J. Richichi, W. R. Ross, P. Skubic, M. Bishai, J. Fast, J. W. Hinson, N. Menon, D. H. Miller, E. I. Shibata, I. P. J. Shipsey, M. Yurko, S. Glenn, S. D. Johnson, Y. Kwon, S. Roberts, E. H. Thorndike, C. P. Jessop, K. Lingel, H. Marsiske, M. L. Perl, V. Savinov, D. Ugolini, R. Wang, X. Zhou, T. E. Coan, V. Fadeyev, I. Korolkov, Y. Maravin, I. Narsky, V. Shelkov, J. Staeck, R. Stroynowski, I. Volobouev, J. Ye, M. Artuso, A. Efimov, M. Goldberg, D. He, S. Kopp, G. C. Moneti, R. Mountain, S. Schuh, T. Skwarnicki, S. Stone, G. Viehhauser, X. Xing, J. Bartelt, S. E. Csorna, V. Jain, K. W. McLean, S. Marka, R. Godang, K. Kinoshita, I. C. Lai, P. Pomianowski, S. Schrenk, G. Bonvicini, D. Cinabro, R. Greene, L. P. Perera, G. J. Zhou, B. Barish, M. Chadha, S. Chan, G. Eigen, J. S. Miller, C. O’Grady, M. Schmidtler, J. Urheim, A. J. Weinstein, F. Würthwein, D. W. Bliss, G. Masek, H. P. Paar, S. Prell, V. Sharma, D. M. Asner, J. Gronberg, T. S. Hill, D. J. Lange, S. Menary, R. J. Morrison, H. N. Nelson, T. K. Nelson, C. Qiao, J. D. Richman, D. Roberts, A. Ryd, M. S. Witherell, R. Balest, B. H. Behrens, W. T. Ford, H. Park, J. Roy, J. G. Smith, J. P. Alexander, C. Bebek, B. E. Berger, K. Berkelman, K. Bloom, D. G. Cassel, H. A. Cho, D. S. Crowcroft, M. Dickson, P. S. Drell, K. M. Ecklund, R. Ehrlich, A. D. Foland, P. Gaidarev, L. Gibbons, B. Gittelman, S. W. Gray, D. L. Hartill, B. K. Heltsley, P. I. Hopman, S. L. Jones, J. Kandaswamy, P. C. Kim, D. L. Kreinick, T. Lee, Y. Liu, N. B. Mistry, C. R. Ng, E. Nordberg, M. Ogg, J. R. Patterson, D. Peterson, D. Riley, A. Soffer, B. Valant-Spaight, C. Ward, M. Athanas, P. Avery, C. D. Jones, M. Lohner, C. Prescott, J. Yelton, J. Zheng, G. Brandenburg, R. A. Briere, A. Ershov, Y. S. Gao, D. Y.-J. Kim, R. Wilson, H. Yamamoto, aPermanent address: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551. bPermanent address: BINP, RU-630090 Novosibirsk, Russia. cPermanent address: Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea. dPermanent address: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973. ePermanent address: University of Texas, Austin TX 78712

First Observations of {Upsilon}(1S) {r_arrow} {gamma}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup {minus}} and {Upsilon}(1S) {r_arrow} {gamma}{pi}{sup 0}{pi}{sup 0}

We report on a study of exclusive radiative decays of the Upsilon(1S) resonance collected with the CLEO-II detector operating at CESR. We present the first observation of the radiative decays Upsilon(1S)->gamma pi+pi- and Upsilon(1S)->gamma pi0pi0. For the dipion mass regime m(pipi)>1.0 GeV, we obtain Br(Upsilon(1S)->gamma pi+pi-=(6.3+/-1.2+/-1.3) x 10^(-5), and Br(Upsilon(1S)->gamma pi0pi0=(1.7+/-0.6+/-0.3) x 10^(-5). The observed gamma pipi events are consistent with the hypothesis Upsilon(1S)->gamma f2(1270).

Observation of High Momentum {ital {eta}}{sup {prime}} Production in {ital B} Decays

We report the first observation of B{r_arrow}{eta}{sup {prime}}X transitions with high momentum {eta}{sup {prime}} mesons. We observe 39.0{plus_minus}11.6 B decay events with 2.0{lt}p{sub {eta}{sup {prime}}}{lt}2.7 GeV/c , the high momentum region where background from b{r_arrow}c processes is suppressed. We discuss the physical interpretation of the signal, including the possibility that it is due to b{r_arrow}sg{sup {asterisk}} transitions. Given that interpretation, we find B(B{r_arrow}{eta}{sup {prime}}X{sub s} )=[6.2{plus_minus}1.6(stat){plus_minus} 1.3(syst){sup +0.0}{sub {minus}1.5} (bkg)]{times}10{sup {minus}4} for 2.0{lt}p{sub {eta}{sup {prime}}}{lt}2.7 GeV/c . {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society }

First Observation of the Cabibbo Suppressed Decay {ital B}{sup {ital +}}{ital {r_arrow} {bar {ital D}}}{sup {ital 0}}{ital K}{sup +}

We have observed the decay of the

New Measurement of {ital B} {r_arrow} {ital D}{sup {asterisk}}{ital {pi}} Branching Fractions

B^-

Measurement of the branching fractions of {Lambda}{sub c}{sup +}{r_arrow}p{bar K}n({pi})

meson into

Measurement of the {ovr {ital B}} {r_arrow} {ital Dl}{ovr {nu} } Partial Width and Form Factor Parameters

D^0 K^-

Study of the Decay {ital {tau}}{sup {minus}}{r_arrow}2{ital {pi} }{sup {minus}}{ital {pi}}{sup +} 3{ital {pi}}{sup 0}{ital {nu}}{sub {ital {tau} }}

, using 3.3 million

{Lambda}{bar {Lambda}} production in two-photon interactions

B\bar B

Study of gluon versus quark fragmentation in {Upsilon}{r_arrow}gg{gamma} and e{sup +}e{sup {minus}}{r_arrow}q{bar q}{gamma} events at {radical}(s)=10 GeV

pairs collected with the CLEO II detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring. We find the branching fractions of this decay to be suppressed relative to the decay into