APS » Phys. Rev. D » Volume 79 » Issue 11

B. Aubert,¹ M. Bona,¹ Y. Karyotakis,¹ J. P. Lees,¹ V. Poireau,¹ E. Prencipe,¹ X. Prudent,¹ V. Tisserand,¹ J. Garra Tico,² E. Grauges,² L. Lopez,^3a,3b A. Palano,^3a,3b M. Pappagallo,^3a,3b G. Eigen,⁴ B. Stugu,⁴ L. Sun,⁴ G. S. Abrams,⁵ M. Battaglia,⁵ D. N. Brown,⁵ R. N. Cahn,⁵ R. G. Jacobsen,⁵ L. T. Kerth,⁵ Yu. G. Kolomensky,⁵ G. Lynch,⁵ I. L. Osipenkov,⁵ M. T. Ronan,⁵ K. Tackmann,⁵ T. Tanabe,⁵ C. M. Hawkes,⁶ N. Soni,⁶ A. T. Watson,⁶ H. Koch,⁷ T. Schroeder,⁷ D. Walker,⁸ D. J. Asgeirsson,⁹ B. G. Fulsom,⁹ C. Hearty,⁹ T. S. Mattison,⁹ J. A. McKenna,⁹ M. Barrett,¹⁰ A. Khan,¹⁰ V. E. Blinov,¹¹ A. D. Bukin,¹¹ A. R. Buzykaev,¹¹ V. P. Druzhinin,¹¹ V. B. Golubev,¹¹ A. P. Onuchin,¹¹ S. I. Serednyakov,¹¹ Yu. I. Skovpen,¹¹ E. P. Solodov,¹¹ K. Yu. Todyshev,¹¹ M. Bondioli,¹² S. Curry,¹² I. Eschrich,¹² D. Kirkby,¹² A. J. Lankford,¹² P. Lund,¹² M. Mandelkern,¹² E. C. Martin,¹² D. P. Stoker,¹² S. Abachi,¹³ C. Buchanan,¹³ H. Atmacan,¹⁴ J. W. Gary,¹⁴ F. Liu,¹⁴ O. Long,¹⁴ G. M. Vitug,¹⁴ Z. Yasin,¹⁴ L. Zhang,¹⁴ V. Sharma,¹⁵ C. Campagnari,¹⁶ T. M. Hong,¹⁶ D. Kovalskyi,¹⁶ M. A. Mazur,¹⁶ J. D. Richman,¹⁶ T. W. Beck,¹⁷ A. M. Eisner,¹⁷ C. J. Flacco,¹⁷ C. A. Heusch,¹⁷ J. Kroseberg,¹⁷ W. S. Lockman,¹⁷ A. J. Martinez,¹⁷ T. Schalk,¹⁷ B. A. Schumm,¹⁷ A. Seiden,¹⁷ M. G. Wilson,¹⁷ L. O. Winstrom,¹⁷ C. H. Cheng,¹⁸ D. A. Doll,¹⁸ B. Echenard,¹⁸ F. Fang,¹⁸ D. G. Hitlin,¹⁸ I. Narsky,¹⁸ T. Piatenko,¹⁸ F. C. Porter,¹⁸ R. Andreassen,¹⁹ G. Mancinelli,¹⁹ B. T. Meadows,¹⁹ K. Mishra,¹⁹ M. D. Sokoloff,¹⁹ P. C. Bloom,²⁰ W. T. Ford,²⁰ A. Gaz,²⁰ J. F. Hirschauer,²⁰ M. Nagel,²⁰ U. Nauenberg,²⁰ J. G. Smith,²⁰ K. A. Ulmer,²⁰ S. R. Wagner,²⁰ R. Ayad,²¹ A. Soffer,²¹ W. H. Toki,²¹ R. J. Wilson,²¹ E. Feltresi,²² A. Hauke,²² H. Jasper,²² M. Karbach,²² J. Merkel,²² A. Petzold,²² B. Spaan,²² K. Wacker,²² M. J. Kobel,²³ R. Nogowski,²³ K. R. Schubert,²³ R. Schwierz,²³ A. Volk,²³ D. Bernard,²⁴ G. R. Bonneaud,²⁴ E. Latour,²⁴ M. Verderi,²⁴ P. J. Clark,²⁵ S. Playfer,²⁵ J. E. Watson,²⁵ M. Andreotti,^26a,26b D. Bettoni,^26a C. 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Yamamoto,⁴⁶ M. Zhao,⁴⁶ P. M. Patel,⁴⁷ S. H. Robertson,⁴⁷ A. Lazzaro,^48a,48b V. Lombardo,^48a F. Palombo,^48a,48b J. M. Bauer,⁴⁹ L. Cremaldi,⁴⁹ R. Godang,⁴⁹ R. Kroeger,⁴⁹ D. A. Sanders,⁴⁹ D. J. Summers,⁴⁹ H. W. Zhao,⁴⁹ M. Simard,⁵⁰ P. Taras,⁵⁰ F. B. Viaud,⁵⁰ H. Nicholson,⁵¹ G. De Nardo,^52a,52b L. Lista,^52a D. Monorchio,^52a,52b G. Onorato,^52a,52b C. Sciacca,^52a,52b G. Raven,⁵³ H. L. Snoek,⁵³ C. P. Jessop,⁵⁴ K. J. Knoepfel,⁵⁴ J. M. LoSecco,⁵⁴ W. F. Wang,⁵⁴ G. Benelli,⁵⁵ L. A. Corwin,⁵⁵ K. Honscheid,⁵⁵ H. Kagan,⁵⁵ R. Kass,⁵⁵ J. P. Morris,⁵⁵ A. M. Rahimi,⁵⁵ J. J. Regensburger,⁵⁵ S. J. Sekula,⁵⁵ Q. K. Wong,⁵⁵ N. L. Blount,⁵⁶ J. Brau,⁵⁶ R. Frey,⁵⁶ O. Igonkina,⁵⁶ J. A. Kolb,⁵⁶ M. Lu,⁵⁶ R. Rahmat,⁵⁶ N. B. Sinev,⁵⁶ D. Strom,⁵⁶ J. Strube,⁵⁶ E. Torrence,⁵⁶ G. Castelli,^57a,57b N. Gagliardi,^57a,57b M. Margoni,^57a,57b M. Morandin,^57a M. Posocco,^57a M. Rotondo,^57a F. Simonetto,^57a,57b R. Stroili,^57a,57b C. Voci,^57a,57b P. del Amo Sanchez,⁵⁸ E. Ben-Haim,⁵⁸ H. Briand,⁵⁸ G. Calderini,⁵⁸ J. Chauveau,⁵⁸ P. David,⁵⁸ L. Del Buono,⁵⁸ O. Hamon,⁵⁸ Ph. Leruste,⁵⁸ J. Ocariz,⁵⁸ A. Perez,⁵⁸ J. Prendki,⁵⁸ S. Sitt,⁵⁸ L. Gladney,⁵⁹ M. Biasini,^60a,60b R. Covarelli,^60a,60b E. Manoni,^60a,60b C. Angelini,^61a,61b G. Batignani,^61a,61b S. Bettarini,^61a,61b M. Carpinelli,^61a,61b A. Cervelli,^61a,61b F. Forti,^61a,61b M. A. Giorgi,^61a,61b A. Lusiani,^61a,61c G. Marchiori,^61a,61b M. Morganti,^61a,61b N. Neri,^61a,61b E. Paoloni,^61a,61b G. Rizzo,^61a,61b J. J. Walsh,^61a D. Lopes Pegna,⁶² C. Lu,⁶² J. Olsen,⁶² A. J. S. Smith,⁶² A. V. Telnov,⁶² F. Anulli,^63a E. Baracchini,^63a,63b G. Cavoto,^63a D. del Re,^63a,63b E. Di Marco,^63a,63b R. Faccini,^63a,63b F. Ferrarotto,^63a F. Ferroni,^63a,63b M. Gaspero,^63a,63b P. D. Jackson,^63a L. Li Gioi,^63a M. A. Mazzoni,^63a S. Morganti,^63a G. Piredda,^63a F. Polci,^63a,63b F. Renga,^63a,63b C. Voena,^63a M. Ebert,⁶⁴ T. Hartmann,⁶⁴ H. Schröder,⁶⁴ R. Waldi,⁶⁴ T. Adye,⁶⁵ B. Franek,⁶⁵ E. O. Olaiya,⁶⁵ F. F. Wilson,⁶⁵ S. Emery,⁶⁶ M. Escalier,⁶⁶ L. Esteve,⁶⁶ S. F. Ganzhur,⁶⁶ G. Hamel de Monchenault,⁶⁶ W. Kozanecki,⁶⁶ G. Vasseur,⁶⁶ Ch. Yèche,⁶⁶ M. Zito,⁶⁶ X. R. Chen,⁶⁷ H. Liu,⁶⁷ W. Park,⁶⁷ M. V. Purohit,⁶⁷ R. M. White,⁶⁷ J. R. Wilson,⁶⁷ M. T. Allen,⁶⁸ D. Aston,⁶⁸ R. Bartoldus,⁶⁸ P. Bechtle,⁶⁸ J. F. Benitez,⁶⁸ R. Cenci,⁶⁸ J. P. Coleman,⁶⁸ M. R. Convery,⁶⁸ J. C. Dingfelder,⁶⁸ J. Dorfan,⁶⁸ G. P. Dubois-Felsmann,⁶⁸ W. Dunwoodie,⁶⁸ R. C. Field,⁶⁸ A. M. Gabareen,⁶⁸ S. J. Gowdy,⁶⁸ M. T. Graham,⁶⁸ P. Grenier,⁶⁸ C. Hast,⁶⁸ W. R. Innes,⁶⁸ J. Kaminski,⁶⁸ M. H. Kelsey,⁶⁸ H. Kim,⁶⁸ P. Kim,⁶⁸ M. L. Kocian,⁶⁸ D. W. G. S. Leith,⁶⁸ S. Li,⁶⁸ B. Lindquist,⁶⁸ S. Luitz,⁶⁸ V. Luth,⁶⁸ H. L. Lynch,⁶⁸ D. B. MacFarlane,⁶⁸ H. Marsiske,⁶⁸ R. Messner,⁶⁸ D. R. Muller,⁶⁸ H. Neal,⁶⁸ S. Nelson,⁶⁸ C. P. O'Grady,⁶⁸ I. Ofte,⁶⁸ A. Perazzo,⁶⁸ M. Perl,⁶⁸ B. N. Ratcliff,⁶⁸ A. Roodman,⁶⁸ A. A. Salnikov,⁶⁸ R. H. Schindler,⁶⁸ J. Schwiening,⁶⁸ A. Snyder,⁶⁸ D. Su,⁶⁸ M. K. Sullivan,⁶⁸ K. Suzuki,⁶⁸ S. K. Swain,⁶⁸ J. M. Thompson,⁶⁸ J. Va'vra,⁶⁸ A. P. Wagner,⁶⁸ M. Weaver,⁶⁸ C. A. West,⁶⁸ W. J. Wisniewski,⁶⁸ M. Wittgen,⁶⁸ D. H. Wright,⁶⁸ H. W. Wulsin,⁶⁸ A. K. Yarritu,⁶⁸ K. Yi,⁶⁸ C. C. Young,⁶⁸ V. Ziegler,⁶⁸ P. R. Burchat,⁶⁹ A. J. Edwards,⁶⁹ S. A. Majewski,⁶⁹ T. S. Miyashita,⁶⁹ B. A. Petersen,⁶⁹ L. Wilden,⁶⁹ S. Ahmed,⁷⁰ M. S. Alam,⁷⁰ J. A. Ernst,⁷⁰ B. Pan,⁷⁰ M. A. Saeed,⁷⁰ S. B. Zain,⁷⁰ S. M. Spanier,⁷¹ B. J. Wogsland,⁷¹ R. Eckmann,⁷² J. L. Ritchie,⁷² A. M. Ruland,⁷² C. J. Schilling,⁷² R. F. Schwitters,⁷² B. W. Drummond,⁷³ J. M. Izen,⁷³ X. C. Lou,⁷³ F. Bianchi,^74a,74b D. Gamba,^74a,74b M. Pelliccioni,^74a,74b M. Bomben,^75a,75b L. Bosisio,^75a,75b C. Cartaro,^75a,75b G. Della Ricca,^75a,75b L. Lanceri,^75a,75b L. Vitale,^75a,75b V. Azzolini,⁷⁶ N. Lopez-March,⁷⁶ F. Martinez-Vidal,⁷⁶ D. A. Milanes,⁷⁶ A. Oyanguren,⁷⁶ J. Albert,⁷⁷ Sw. Banerjee,⁷⁷ B. Bhuyan,⁷⁷ H. H. F. Choi,⁷⁷ K. Hamano,⁷⁷ R. Kowalewski,⁷⁷ M. J. Lewczuk,⁷⁷ I. M. Nugent,⁷⁷ J. M. Roney,⁷⁷ R. J. Sobie,⁷⁷ T. J. Gershon,⁷⁸ P. F. Harrison,⁷⁸ J. Ilic,⁷⁸ T. E. Latham,⁷⁸ G. B. Mohanty,⁷⁸ H. R. Band,⁷⁹ X. Chen,⁷⁹ S. Dasu,⁷⁹ K. T. Flood,⁷⁹ Y. Pan,⁷⁹ M. Pierini,⁷⁹ R. Prepost,⁷⁹ C. O. Vuosalo,⁷⁹ and S. L. Wu⁷⁹

(BABAR Collaboration)

¹Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, IN2P3/CNRS et Université de Savoie, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux, France
²Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
^3aINFN Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
^3bDipartmento di Fisica, Università di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
⁴University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
⁵Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
⁶University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
⁷Ruhr Universität Bochum, Institut für Experimentalphysik 1, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
⁸University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, United Kingdom
⁹University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1 Canada
¹⁰Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, United Kingdom
¹¹Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
¹²University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA
¹³University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
¹⁴University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
¹⁵University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
¹⁶University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
¹⁷University of California at Santa Cruz, Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
¹⁸California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
¹⁹University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA
²⁰University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
²¹Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
²²Technische Universität Dortmund, Fakultät Physik, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
²³Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
²⁴Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
²⁵University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom
^26aINFN Sezione di Ferrara, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
^26bDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Ferrara, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
²⁷INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
^28aINFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
^28bDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
²⁹Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
³⁰Universität Heidelberg, Physikalisches Institut, Philosophenweg 12, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
³¹Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physik, Newtonstr. 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
³²Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
³³University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
³⁴Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3160, USA
³⁵Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
³⁶Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, IN2P3/CNRS et Université Paris-Sud 11, Centre Scientifique d'Orsay, B. P. 34, F-91898 Orsay Cedex, France
³⁷Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
³⁸University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom
³⁹Queen Mary, University of London, London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom
⁴⁰University of London, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom
⁴¹University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA
⁴²Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Institut für Kernphysik, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
⁴³University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
⁴⁴University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
⁴⁵University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
⁴⁶Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
⁴⁷McGill University, Montréal, Québec, H3A 2T8 Canada
^48aINFN Sezione di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
^48bDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
⁴⁹University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA
⁵⁰Université de Montréal, Physique des Particules, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7 Canada
⁵¹Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075, USA
^52aINFN Sezione di Napoli, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
^52bDipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
⁵³NIKHEF, National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
⁵⁴University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
⁵⁵Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
⁵⁶University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
^57aINFN Sezione di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
^57bDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
⁵⁸Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies, IN2P3/CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, Université Denis Diderot-Paris7, F-75252 Paris, France
⁵⁹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
^60aINFN Sezione di Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
^60bDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
^61aINFN Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
^61bDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
^61cScuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
⁶²Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
^63aINFN Sezione di Roma, I-00185 Roma, Italy
^63bDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Roma, Italy
⁶⁴Universität Rostock, D-18051 Rostock, Germany
⁶⁵Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
⁶⁶CEA, Irfu, SPP, Centre de Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
⁶⁷University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
⁶⁸Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, California 94309, USA
⁶⁹Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4060, USA
⁷⁰State University of New York, Albany, New York 12222, USA
⁷¹University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
⁷²University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
⁷³University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75083, USA
^74aINFN Sezione di Torino, I-10125 Torino, Italy
^74bDipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale, Università di Torino, I-10125 Torino, Italy
^75aINFN Sezione di Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
^75bDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
⁷⁶IFIC, Universitat de Valencia-CSIC, E-46071 Valencia, Spain
⁷⁷University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 3P6
⁷⁸Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
⁷⁹University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA

We report the results of a search for Z(4430)^- decay to J/psipi^- or psi(2S)pi^- in B^-,0-->J/psipi^-K^0,+ and B^-,0-->psi(2S)pi^-K^0,+ decays. The data were collected with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy e⁺e^- collider operating at center-of-mass energy 10.58 GeV, and the sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 413 fb^-1. Each Kpi^- mass distribution exhibits clear K^*(892) and K₂^*(1430) signals, and the efficiency-corrected spectrum is well described by a superposition of the associated Breit-Wigner intensity distributions, together with an S-wave contribution obtained from the LASS I=1/2 Kpi^- scattering amplitude measurements. Each Kpi^- angular distribution varies significantly in structure with Kpi^- mass, and is represented in terms of low-order Legendre polynomial moments. We find that each J/psipi^- or psi(2S)pi^- mass distribution is well described by the reflection of the measured Kpi^- mass and angular distribution structures. We see no significant evidence for a Z(4430)^- signal for any of the processes investigated, neither in the total J/psipi^- or psi(2S)pi^- mass distribution, nor in the corresponding distributions for the regions of Kpi^- mass for which observation of the Z(4430)^- signal was reported. We obtain branching-fraction upper limits [script B](B^--->Z^-[overline K]⁰,Z^--->J/psipi^-)<1.5×10^-5, [script B](B⁰-->Z^-K⁺,Z^--->J/psipi^-)<0.4×10^-5, [script B](B^--->Z^-[overline K]⁰,Z^--->psi(2S)pi^-)<4.7×10^-5, and [script B](B⁰-->Z^-K⁺,Z^--->psi(2S)pi^-)<3.1×10^-5 at 95% confidence level, where the Z(4430)^- mass and width have been fixed to the reported central values.

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