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Thanks Daniele,
yes, I suspected the D flavor might be the culprit for decays with Ks, Kl,
etc.
Shouldn't we also have a problem for B0 , whenever you
have a D decaying to a neutral K?
Ciao,
Vera


Daniele del Re wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>  starting from the disagreement shown by Ajit in the lepton spectrum
> for the wrong sign events for the mode B+->D0pi with
> D0->Kspipi we finally discovered the bug. In recoilNtp the flavor and the
> charge of the B is assigned looking at the flavor of the daugther D meson.
> Unfortunately for D0->Kspipi the flavor is correct only in 50% of the
> cases. Then the charge and the flavor of the B+ reconstructed in a mode
> with D0->Kspipi were crap.
>
>  This bug should affect B+->D0X with D0->Kspipi (all X systems) in the
> following ways:
>
>  - total charge is wrong
>  - lepton spectrum (applying the charge correlation) is wrong
>  - all variables that present differences between right sing and wrong
>    sing could be affected
>
>  I am going to fix the bug (charge and flavor for B+ will be calculated
> adding up the charge of all the daughters). Then it should be interesting
> to see how the measurement for B+ will change and how the comparison
> data-mc will look like (remember that the comparison for B+ was usually
> not so good).
>
>  Daniele and Ric