Measurement of the spectroscopy of orbitally excited B mesons at LEP

We measure the masses, decay widths and relative production rate of orbitally excited B mesons using 1.25 million hadronic Z decays recorded by the L3 detector. B-meson candidates are inclusively reconstructed and combined with charged pions produced at the primary event vertex. An excess of events above the expected background in the Bπ mass spectrum in the region 5.6–5.8 GeV is interpreted as resulting from the decay B∗∗u,d→B(∗)π, where …