Studies of B_s Production and Semileptonic Decay, and of Antideuteron Production in Upsilon Decay and Quark Fragmentation at BaBar

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2012

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I present a measurement of the inclusive semileptonic branching fraction of

the Bs meson and Bs production rates relative to all B mesons

using a data set collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric energy electron-positron collider operating at center-of-mass energies above the Upsilon(4S) resonance. The quantities are extracted simultaneously using

inclusive yields of phi mesons and phi mesons in coincidence with a

high momentum lepton. The Bs semileptonic branching fraction is found to

be B(Bs<\sub> → l ν X) = (9.5+2.5-2.0+1.1-1.9)%, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the

second is systematic. Additionally, I present measurements of antideuteron production using the BaBar data

collected at collision center-of-mass

energies corresponding to the masses of the Upsilon(2S), Upsilon(3S), and Upsilon(4S) resonances. Measurements of specific ionization for charged tracks in the \babar\ detector are used to obtain

the antideuteron production rate in decays of the Upsilon(1S), Upsilon(2S), and Upsilon(3S) resonances

as well as in continuum e+e- annihilation to hadrons. The total

rates observed in the data are B(Upsilon(2S) → dbar X) = (2.62 ± 0.10+0.31-0.28)× 10-5, B(Upsilon(1S) → dbar X) = (2.85 ± 0.47+0.21-0.29)× 10-5, B(Upsilon(3S) → dbar X) = (2.45 ± 0.14+0.27-0.24)× 10-5, and the cross section for antideuteron production in continuum e+e- annihilation is found to be σ(e+e- (10.58 GeV) → dbar X) = (10.49 ± 0.33+1.28-1.14) fb. No significant production in Upsilon(4S) decays is observed.

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