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First observation and measurement of the branching fraction for the decay B⁰_s to D_s^(*mp) K^(pm)
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arxiv 1503.09086 v2 pith:XEKWH742 submitted 2015-03-31 hep-ex
First observation and measurement of the branching fraction for the decay B⁰_s to D_s^(*mp) K^(pm)
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The first observation of the $B^0_s \to D_s^{*\mp} K^{\pm}$ decay is reported using 3.0$fb^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment. The $D_s^{*\mp}$ mesons are reconstructed through the decay chain $D_s^{*\mp} \to \gamma D_s^{\mp}(K^{\mp}K^{\pm}\pi^{\mp})$. The branching fraction relative to that for $B^0_s \to D_s^{*-} \pi^{+}$ is measured to be $0.068 \pm 0.005 ^{+0.003}_{-0.002}$, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. Using a recent measurement of $BR(B^0_s \to D_s^{*-} \pi^{+})$ the absolute branching fraction of $B^0_s \to D_s^{*\mp} K^{\pm}$ is measured as ( 16.3 $\pm$ 1.2 (stat) $^{+0.7}_{-0.5}$ (syst) $\pm$ 4.8 (norm) ) $\times$ 10$^{-5}$, where the third uncertainty is due to the uncertainty on the branching fraction of the normalisation channel.
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