Measurement Of The Exclusive And Inclusive Branching Fractions Of B0s D S Ds Decays At Cdf And Its Implications On The Decay Width Difference In The B0s B 0s Meson System

Measurement of the Exclusive and Inclusive Branching Fractions of B0s→D(*)s+Ds(*) Decays at CDF and Its Implications on the Decay Width Difference in the B0s-B̄0s Meson System

Measurement of the Exclusive and Inclusive Branching Fractions of $B^{0}_{s} \to D^{(*)+}_{s}D^{(*)-}_{s}$ Decays at CDF and Its Implications on the Decay Width Difference in the $B^{0}_{s}-B^{-0}_{s}$ Meson System

The purpose of this thesis is threefold: Firstly, new measurements of both the exclusive and semi-inclusive partial decay widths of $B^{0}_{s} \to D^{(*)+}_{s}D^{(*)-}_{s}$ meson decays are presented. Secondly, the feasibility of extracting the unknown polarization components in $B^{0}_{s} \to D^{(*)+}_{s}D^{(*)-}_{s}$ by partial reconstruction of this pseudo-scalar to vector-vector decay in a Monte Carlo driven analysis scheme is studied. Finally, based on the suggestions contributed by the theory community this study discusses how a measurement of the branching fraction of semi-inclusive decays $B^{0}_{s} \to D^{(*)+}_{s}D^{(*)-}_{s}$ can contribute to gain insight about the relative decay width di erence in the B$0\atop{s}$--B$0\atop{s}$ meson system.

Measurement of Ds+ and Ds*+ Production in B Meson Decays and from Continuum E+e- Annihilation at Sqrt(s)

New measurements of D[sub s][sup+] and D*[sub s][sup+] meson production rates from B decays and from q[bar q] continuum events near the[Upsilon](4S) resonance are presented. Using 20.8 fb[sup -1] of data on the[Upsilon](4S) resonance and 2.6 fb[sup -1] off resonance, we find the inclusive branching fractions[Beta](B[yields] D[sub s][sup+]X)= (10.93[+-] 0.19[+-] 0.58[+-] 2.73)% and[Beta](B[yields] D*[sub s][sup+] X)= (7.9[+-] 0.8[+-] 0.7[+-] 2.0)%, where the first error is statistical, the second is systematic, and the third is due to the D[sub s][sup+][yields][phi][pi][sup+] branching fraction uncertainty. The branching fractions[Sigma][Beta](B[yields] D(*)[sub s][sup+][bar D](*))= (5.07[+-] 0.14[+-] 0.30[+-] 1.27)% and[Sigma][Beta](B[yields] D*[sub s][sup+][bar D](*))= (4.1[+-] 0.2[+-] 0.4[+-] 1.0)% are determined from the D(*)[sub s][sup+] momentum spectra.