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    Measurement of branching fractions for exclusive B decays to charmonium final states

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    We report branching fraction measurements for exclusive decays of charged and neutral B mesons into two-body final states containing a charmonium meson. We use a sample of 22.72+/-0.36 million BBbar events collected between October 1999 and October 2000 with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II storage rings at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The charmonium mesons considered here are J/ψ, ψ(2S), and χc1, and the light meson in the decay is either a K, K*, or π0

    Measurement of J/psi production in continuum e+e- annihilations near sqrt(s) = 10.6 GeV

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    The production of J/ψJ/\psi mesons in continuum e+ee^+e^- annihilations has been studied with the BABAR detector at energies near the Υ(4S)\Upsilon(4S) resonance, approximately 10.6 GeV. The mesons are distinguished from J/ψJ/\psi production in B decays through their center-of-mass momentum and energy. We measure the cross section e+eJ/ψXe^+e^-\to J/\psi X to be 2.52±0.21±0.212.52\pm 0.21\pm 0.21 pb; for momentum above 2 GeV/c, it is 1.87±0.10±0.151.87\pm 0.10\pm 0.15 pb. We set a 90% confidence level upper limit on the branching fraction for direct Υ(4S)\Upsilon(4S)\to J/\psi Xdecaysat decays at 4.7\times 10^{-4}$
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