February 25, 2026 to March 4, 2026
HSE Study Center “Voronovo”
Europe/Moscow timezone

Inclusive measurement of Br(B to X_ccK)/Br(B to J\psiK) and Br(B to D*pi)/Br(B to Dpi) at Belle & Belle 2

Mar 3, 2026, 5:06 PM
12m
HSE Study Center “Voronovo”

HSE Study Center “Voronovo”

Voronovskoe, Moscow Russian Federation
Talk (10+2 min) Young Scientist Forum Young Scientist Forum

Speaker

Sergei Zakharov (Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel)

Description

I will present an inclusive study of $B^+\!\to K^+ X_{c\bar c}$ and $B^+\!\to \bar D^{(*)0}\pi^+$ using $778~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of Belle data and $362~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of Belle~II data at $\sqrt{s}=10.58~\mathrm{GeV}$. The main goal is to measure the inclusive branching-fraction ratio $R_{X/J/\psi} = \mathcal{B}(B^+\!\to K^+ X(3872)) / \mathcal{B}(B^+\!\to K^+ J/\psi)$, where many systematics cancel, and to search for or constrain limit charmonium-like states such as $X(3915)$ and $X(3960)$ in the kaon recoil-mass spectrum. One $B$ meson is fully reconstructed in hadronic modes, while the signal $B$ is inferred from a single prompt kaon or pion and the known $e^+e^-$ initial state. Using the same framework, I also measure $R_{D^*/D} = \mathcal{B}(B^+\!\to\bar D^{*0}\pi^+)/\mathcal{B}(B^+\!\to\bar D^{0}\pi^+)$ and use the $B^+\!\to \bar D^{(*)0}\pi^+$ sample to provide data-driven constraints for the $B^+\!\to K^+ X_{c\bar c}$ fit.

Primary authors

Prof. Abner Soffer (Tel Aviv University) Dr Bogdan Kutsenko (Tel Aviv University) Dr Emilie Bertholet (Tel Aviv University) Ms Gaia Scope (Tel Aviv University) Mr Jianshe Zhou (Fudan University) Sergei Zakharov (Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel)

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