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First observation and amplitude analysis of the $B^{-} \to D^{+} K^{-} π^{-}$ decay

R. Aaij⁴¹, B. Adeva³⁷, M. Adinolfi⁴⁶, A. Affolder⁵², Z. Ajaltouni⁵, S. Akar⁶, J. Albrecht⁹, F. Alessio³⁸, M. Alexander⁵¹ et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

M. Alexander⁵¹, S. Ali⁴¹, G. Alkhazov³⁰, P. Alvarez Cartelle⁵³, A. A. Alves, Jr.⁵⁷, S. Amato², S. Amerio²², Y. Amhis⁷, L. An³, L. Anderlini^17,a, J. Anderson⁴⁰, M. Andreotti^16,b, J. E. Andrews⁵⁸, R. B. Appleby⁵⁴, O. Aquines Gutierrez¹⁰, F. Archilli³⁸, A. Artamonov³⁵, M. Artuso⁵⁹, E. Aslanides⁶, G. Auriemma^25,c, M. Baalouch⁵, S. Bachmann¹¹, J. J. Back⁴⁸, A. Badalov³⁶, C. Baesso⁶⁰, W. Baldini^16,38, R. J. Barlow⁵⁴, C. Barschel³⁸, S. Barsuk⁷, W. Barter³⁸, V. Batozskaya²⁸, V. Battista³⁹, A. Bay³⁹, L. Beaucourt⁴, J. Beddow⁵¹, F. Bedeschi²³, I. Bediaga¹, L. J. Bel⁴¹, I. Belyaev³¹, E. Ben-Haim⁸, G. Bencivenni¹⁸, S. Benson³⁸, J. Benton⁴⁶, A. Berezhnoy³², R. Bernet⁴⁰, A. Bertolin²², M.-O. Bettler³⁸, M. van Beuzekom⁴¹, A. Bien¹¹, S. Bifani⁴⁵, T. Bird⁵⁴, A. Bizzeti^17,d, T. Blake⁴⁸, F. Blanc³⁹, J. Blouw¹⁰, S. Blusk⁵⁹, V. Bocci²⁵, A. Bondar³⁴, N. Bondar^30,38, W. Bonivento¹⁵, S. Borghi⁵⁴, A. Borgia⁵⁹, M. Borsato⁷, T. J. V. Bowcock⁵², E. Bowen⁴⁰, C. Bozzi¹⁶, S. Braun¹¹, D. Brett⁵⁴, M. Britsch¹⁰, T. Britton⁵⁹, J. Brodzicka⁵⁴, N. H. Brook⁴⁶, A. Bursche⁴⁰, J. Buytaert³⁸, S. Cadeddu¹⁵, R. Calabrese^16,b, M. Calvi^20,e, M. Calvo Gomez^36,f, P. Campana¹⁸, D. Campora Perez³⁸, L. Capriotti⁵⁴, A. Carbone^14,g, G. Carboni^24,h, R. Cardinale^19,i, A. Cardini¹⁵, P. Carniti²⁰, L. Carson⁵⁰, K. Carvalho Akiba^2,38, R. Casanova Mohr³⁶, G. Casse⁵², L. Cassina^20,e, L. Castillo Garcia³⁸, M. Cattaneo³⁸, Ch. Cauet⁹, G. Cavallero¹⁹, R. Cenci^23,j, M. Charles⁸, Ph. Charpentier³⁸, M. Chefdeville⁴, S. Chen⁵⁴, S.-F. Cheung⁵⁵, N. Chiapolini⁴⁰, M. Chrzaszcz^40,26, X. Cid Vidal³⁸, G. Ciezarek⁴¹, P. E. L. Clarke⁵⁰, M. Clemencic³⁸, H. V. Cliff⁴⁷, J. Closier³⁸, V. Coco³⁸, J. Cogan⁶, E. Cogneras⁵, V. Cogoni^15,k, L. Cojocariu²⁹, G. Collazuol²², P. Collins³⁸, A. Comerma-Montells¹¹, A. Contu^15,38, A. Cook⁴⁶, M. Coombes⁴⁶, S. Coquereau⁸, G. Corti³⁸, M. Corvo^16,b, I. Counts⁵⁶, B. Couturier³⁸, G. A. Cowan⁵⁰, D. C. Craik⁴⁸, A. C. Crocombe⁴⁸, M. Cruz Torres⁶⁰, S. Cunliffe⁵³, R. Currie⁵³, C. D’Ambrosio³⁸, J. Dalseno⁴⁶, P. N. Y. David⁴¹, A. Davis⁵⁷, K. De Bruyn⁴¹, S. De Capua⁵⁴, M. De Cian¹¹, J. M. De Miranda¹, L. De Paula², W. De Silva⁵⁷, P. De Simone¹⁸, C.-T. Dean⁵¹, D. Decamp⁴, M. Deckenhoff⁹, L. Del Buono⁸, N. Déléage⁴, D. Derkach⁵⁵, O. Deschamps⁵, F. Dettori³⁸, B. Dey⁴⁰, A. Di Canto³⁸, F. Di Ruscio²⁴, H. Dijkstra³⁸, S. Donleavy⁵², F. Dordei¹¹, M. Dorigo³⁹, A. Dosil Suárez³⁷, D. Dossett⁴⁸, A. Dovbnya⁴³, K. Dreimanis⁵², G. Dujany⁵⁴, F. Dupertuis³⁹, P. Durante³⁸, R. Dzhelyadin³⁵, A. Dziurda²⁶, A. Dzyuba³⁰, S. Easo^49,38, U. Egede⁵³, V. Egorychev³¹, S. Eidelman³⁴, S. Eisenhardt⁵⁰, U. Eitschberger⁹, R. Ekelhof⁹, L. Eklund⁵¹, I. El Rifai⁵, Ch. Elsasser⁴⁰, S. Ely⁵⁹, S. Esen¹¹, H. M. Evans⁴⁷, T. Evans⁵⁵, A. Falabella¹⁴, C. Färber¹¹, C. Farinelli⁴¹, N. Farley⁴⁵, S. Farry⁵², R. Fay⁵², D. Ferguson⁵⁰, V. Fernandez Albor³⁷, F. Ferreira Rodrigues¹, M. Ferro-Luzzi³⁸, S. Filippov³³, M. Fiore^16,38,b, M. Fiorini^16,b, M. Firlej²⁷, C. Fitzpatrick³⁹, T. Fiutowski²⁷, P. Fol⁵³, M. 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Stracka^23,j, M. Straticiuc²⁹, U. Straumann⁴⁰, R. Stroili²², L. Sun⁵⁷, W. Sutcliffe⁵³, K. Swientek²⁷, S. Swientek⁹, V. Syropoulos⁴², M. Szczekowski²⁸, P. Szczypka^39,38, T. Szumlak²⁷, S. T’Jampens⁴, M. Teklishyn⁷, G. Tellarini^16,b, F. Teubert³⁸, C. Thomas⁵⁵, E. Thomas³⁸, J. van Tilburg⁴¹, V. Tisserand⁴, M. Tobin³⁹, J. Todd⁵⁷, S. Tolk⁴², L. Tomassetti^16,b, D. Tonelli³⁸, S. Topp-Joergensen⁵⁵, N. Torr⁵⁵, E. Tournefier⁴, S. Tourneur³⁹, K. Trabelsi³⁹, M. T. Tran³⁹, M. Tresch⁴⁰, A. Trisovic³⁸, A. Tsaregorodtsev⁶, P. Tsopelas⁴¹, N. Tuning^41,38, M. Ubeda Garcia³⁸, A. Ukleja²⁸, A. Ustyuzhanin⁶⁵, U. Uwer¹¹, C. Vacca^15,k, V. Vagnoni¹⁴, G. Valenti¹⁴, A. Vallier⁷, R. Vazquez Gomez¹⁸, P. Vazquez Regueiro³⁷, C. Vázquez Sierra³⁷, S. Vecchi¹⁶, J. J. Velthuis⁴⁶, M. Veltri^17,u, G. Veneziano³⁹, M. Vesterinen¹¹, J. V. Viana Barbosa³⁸, B. Viaud⁷, D. Vieira², M. Vieites Diaz³⁷, X. Vilasis-Cardona^36,f, A. Vollhardt⁴⁰, D. Volyanskyy¹⁰, D. Voong⁴⁶, A. Vorobyev³⁰, V. Vorobyev³⁴, C. Voß⁶³, J. A. de Vries⁴¹, R. Waldi⁶³, C. Wallace⁴⁸, R. Wallace¹², J. Walsh²³, S. Wandernoth¹¹, J. Wang⁵⁹, D. R. Ward⁴⁷, N. K. Watson⁴⁵, D. Websdale⁵³, A. Weiden⁴⁰, M. Whitehead⁴⁸, D. Wiedner¹¹, G. Wilkinson^55,38, M. Wilkinson⁵⁹, M. Williams³⁸, M. P. Williams⁴⁵, M. Williams⁵⁶, H. W. Wilschut⁶⁷, F. F. Wilson⁴⁹, J. Wimberley⁵⁸, J. Wishahi⁹, W. Wislicki²⁸, M. Witek²⁶, G. Wormser⁷, S. A. Wotton⁴⁷, S. Wright⁴⁷, K. Wyllie³⁸, Y. Xie⁶¹, Z. Xu³⁹, Z. Yang³, X. Yuan³⁴, O. Yushchenko³⁵, M. Zangoli¹⁴, M. Zavertyaev^10,v, L. Zhang³, Y. Zhang³, A. Zhelezov¹¹, A. Zhokhov³¹, and L. Zhong³ (LHCb Collaboration)

¹Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
²Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
³Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
⁴LAPP, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, Annecy-Le-Vieux, France
⁵Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
⁶CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France
⁷LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
⁸LPNHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
⁹Fakultät Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
¹⁰Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Heidelberg, Germany
¹¹Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
¹²School of Physics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
¹³Sezione INFN di Bari, Bari, Italy
¹⁴Sezione INFN di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
¹⁵Sezione INFN di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
¹⁶Sezione INFN di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
¹⁷Sezione INFN di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
¹⁸Laboratori Nazionali dell’INFN di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
¹⁹Sezione INFN di Genova, Genova, Italy
²⁰Sezione INFN di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy
²¹Sezione INFN di Milano, Milano, Italy
²²Sezione INFN di Padova, Padova, Italy
²³Sezione INFN di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
²⁴Sezione INFN di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
²⁵Sezione INFN di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
²⁶Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
²⁷AGH - University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Kraków, Poland
²⁸National Center for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Warsaw, Poland
²⁹Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
³⁰Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), Gatchina, Russia
³¹Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia
³²Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University (SINP MSU), Moscow, Russia
³³Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR RAN), Moscow, Russia
³⁴Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (SB RAS) and Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
³⁵Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Protvino, Russia
³⁶Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
³⁷Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
³⁸European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
³⁹Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
⁴⁰Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
⁴¹Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
⁴²Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics and VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
⁴³NSC Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (NSC KIPT), Kharkiv, Ukraine
⁴⁴Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences (KINR), Kyiv, Ukraine
⁴⁵University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
⁴⁶H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
⁴⁷Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
⁴⁸Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
⁴⁹STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom
⁵⁰School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
⁵¹School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
⁵²Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
⁵³Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
⁵⁴School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
⁵⁵Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
⁵⁶Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
⁵⁷University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
⁵⁸University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
⁵⁹Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States
⁶⁰Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (associated with Institution Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
⁶¹Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China (associated with Institution Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
⁶²Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia (associated with Institution LPNHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France)
⁶³Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany (associated with Institution Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany)
⁶⁴National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia (associated with Institution Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia)
⁶⁵Yandex School of Data Analysis, Moscow, Russia (associated with Institution Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia)
⁶⁶Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC), Universitat de Valencia-CSIC, Valencia, Spain (associated with Institution Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
⁶⁷Van Swinderen Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands (associated with Institution Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

^*Full author list given at the end of the article.
^aAlso at Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
^bAlso at Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
^cAlso at Università della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy.
^dAlso at Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
^eAlso at Università di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
^fAlso at LIFAELS, La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain.
^gAlso at Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
^hAlso at Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy.
ⁱAlso at Università di Genova, Genova, Italy.
^jAlso at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy.
^kAlso at Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
^lAlso at Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.
^mAlso at Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM), Uberaba-MG, Brazil.
ⁿAlso at AGH - University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, Kraków, Poland.
^oAlso at Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.
^pAlso at Hanoi University of Science, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
^qAlso at Università di Bari, Bari, Italy.
^rAlso at Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy.
^sAlso at Università di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy.
^tAlso at Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
^uAlso at Università di Urbino, Urbino, Italy.
^vAlso at P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Science (LPI RAS), Moscow, Russia.

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Phys. Rev. D 91, 092002 – Published 5 May, 2015Erratum Phys. Rev. D 93, 119901 (2016)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.092002

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The $B^{-} \to D^{+} K^{-} π^{-}$ decay is observed in a data sample corresponding to $3.0 {fb}^{- 1}$ of $p p$ collision data recorded by the LHCb experiment during 2011 and 2012. Its branching fraction is measured to be $B (B^{-} \to D^{+} K^{-} π^{-}) = (7.31 \pm 0.19 \pm 0.22 \pm 0.39) \times 1 0^{- 5}$ where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic and from the branching fraction of the normalization channel $B^{-} \to D^{+} π^{-} π^{-}$ , respectively. An amplitude analysis of the resonant structure of the $B^{-} \to D^{+} K^{-} π^{-}$ decay is used to measure the contributions from quasi-two-body $B^{-} \to D_{0}^{*} (2400)^{0} K^{-}$ , $B^{-} \to D_{2}^{*} (2460)^{0} K^{-}$ , and $B^{-} \to D_{J}^{*} (2760)^{0} K^{-}$ decays, as well as from nonresonant sources. The $D_{J}^{*} (2760)^{0}$ resonance is determined to have spin 1.

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Erratum: First observation and amplitude analysis of the $B^{-} \to D^{+} K^{-} π^{-}$ decay [Phys. Rev. D 91, 092002 (2015)]

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. D 93, 119901 (2016)

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