Measurement of D_s^+ and D_s^{*+} production in B meson decays and from continuum e^+e^- annihilations at sqrt{s}=10.6 GeV

Abstract

New precise measurements of $D_s^+$ and $D_s^{*+}$ meson production from $B$ mesons and $q\bar q$ continuum events near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance are presented in this paper. Using the BABAR data recorded in 1999 and 2000 of 20.8 fb$^{-1}$ on-resonance and 2.6 fb$^{-1}$ off-resonance, we measure the inclusive branching fractions ${\cal B}(B\to D_s^+ X) = (10.93\pm 0.19\pm 0.58\pm 2.73)%$ and ${\cal B}(B\to D_s^{*+} X) = (7.94\pm 0.82\pm 0.72\pm 1.99)%$, where the first error is statistical, the second is the systematic error, and the third is the error due to the $D_s^+\to\phi\pi^+$ branching fraction uncertainty. The branching fractions $\Sigma {\cal B}(B\to D_s^{(*)+} \bar D^{(*)}) = (5.07\pm 0.09\pm 0.34\pm 1.27)%$ and $\Sigma {\cal B}(B\to D_s^{*+} \bar D^{(*)}) = (4.07\pm 0.42\pm 0.53\pm 1.02)%$ have been determined from the measured $D_s^{(*)+}$ momentum spectra.