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Abstract

We present a study of resonances in exclusive decays of $B$ mesons to ${\overline{D}}^{(*)}{D}^{(*)}K$. We report the observation of the decays $B\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\overline{D}}^{(*)}{D}_{s1}^{+}(2536)$ where the ${D}_{s1}^{+}(2536)$ is reconstructed in the ${D}^{*0}{K}^{+}$ and ${D}^{*+}{K}_{S}^{0}$ decay channels. We report also the observation of the decays $B\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\psi}(3770)K$ where the $\ensuremath{\psi}(3770)$ decays to ${\overline{D}}^{0}{D}^{0}$ and ${D}^{\ensuremath{-}}{D}^{+}$. In addition, we present the observation of an enhancement for the ${\overline{D}}^{*0}{D}^{0}$ invariant mass in the decays $B\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\overline{D}}^{*0}{D}^{0}K$, at a mass of $({3875.1}_{\ensuremath{-}0.5}^{+0.7}\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.5)\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}/{c}^{2}$ with a width of $({3.0}_{\ensuremath{-}1.4}^{+1.9}\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.9)\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}$ (the first errors are statistical and the second are systematic). Branching fractions and spin studies are shown for the three resonances. The results are based on $347\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{fb}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ of data collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II $B$ factory.