Study of Inclusive Production of Charmonium Mesons in B Decays

The inclusive production of charmonium mesons in B meson decay has been studied in a 20.3 fb−1 data set collected by the BABAR experiment operating at the Υ (4S) resonance. Branching fractions have been measured for the inclusive production of the charmonium mesons J/ψ , ψ(2S), χc1, and χc2. The branching fractions are also presented as a function of the center-of-mass momentum of the mesons and of the helicity of the J/ψ . Submitted to Physical Review D Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94309 Work supported in part by Department of Energy contract DE-AC03-76SF00515. SLAC-PUB-9327 October 2002 Revised BABAR-PUB-02/04 SLAC-PUB-9327 hep-ex/0207097 Study of Inclusive Production of Charmonium Mesons in B Decays B. Aubert, D. Boutigny, J.-M. Gaillard, A. Hicheur, Y. Karyotakis, J. P. Lees, P. Robbe, V. Tisserand, and A. Zghiche Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux, France A. Palano and A. Pompili Università di Bari, Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, I-70126 Bari, Italy J. C. Chen, N. D. Qi, G. Rong, P. Wang, and Y. S. Zhu Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100039, China G. Eigen, I. Ofte, and B. Stugu University of Bergen, Inst. of Physics, N-5007 Bergen, Norway G. S. Abrams, A. W. Borgland, A. B. Breon, D. N. Brown, J. Button-Shafer, R. N. Cahn, E. Charles, M. S. Gill, A. V. Gritsan, Y. Groysman, R. G. Jacobsen, R. W. Kadel, J. Kadyk, L. T. Kerth, Yu. G. Kolomensky, J. F. Kral, C. LeClerc, M. E. Levi, G. Lynch, L. M. Mir, P. J. Oddone, T. Orimoto, M. Pripstein, N. A. Roe, A. Romosan, M. T. Ronan, V. G. Shelkov, A. V. Telnov, and W. A. Wenzel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA T. J. Harrison, C. M. Hawkes, D. J. Knowles, S. W. O’Neale, R. C. Penny, A. T. Watson, and N. K. Watson University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom T. Deppermann, K. Goetzen, H. Koch, B. Lewandowski, K. Peters, H. Schmuecker, and M. Steinke Ruhr Universität Bochum, Institut für Experimentalphysik 1, D-44780 Bochum, Germany N. R. Barlow, W. Bhimji, J. T. Boyd, N. Chevalier, P. J. Clark, W. N. Cottingham, C. Mackay, and F. F. Wilson University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, United Kingdom K. Abe, C. Hearty, T. S. Mattison, J. A. McKenna, and D. Thiessen University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1 S. Jolly and A. K. McKemey Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, United Kingdom V. E. Blinov, A. D. Bukin, A. R. Buzykaev, V. B. Golubev, V. N. Ivanchenko, A. A. Korol, E. A. Kravchenko, A. P. Onuchin, S. I. Serednyakov, Yu. I. Skovpen, and A. N. Yushkov Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia D. Best, M. Chao, D. Kirkby, A. J. Lankford, M. Mandelkern, S. McMahon, and D. P. Stoker University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA K. Arisaka, C. Buchanan, and S. Chun University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA D. B. MacFarlane, S. Prell, Sh. Rahatlou, G. Raven, and V. Sharma University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA J. W. Berryhill, C. Campagnari, B. Dahmes, P. A. Hart, N. Kuznetsova, S. L. Levy, O. Long, A. Lu, M. A. Mazur, J. D. Richman, and W. Verkerke University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA J. Beringer, A. M. Eisner, M. Grothe, C. A. Heusch, W. S. Lockman, T. Pulliam, T. Schalk,