201. Observation of the rare decay B+→K+π0π0 and measurement of the quasi-two-body contributions B+→K*(892)+π0, B+→f0(980)K+, and B+→χc0K+
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Lees, JP, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Tico, J Garra, Grauges, E, Martinelli, M, Milanes, DA, Palano, A, Pappagallo, M, Eigen, G, Stugu, B, Brown, DN, Kerth, LT, Kolomensky, Yu G, Lynch, G, Koch, H, Schroeder, T, Asgeirsson, DJ, Hearty, C, Mattison, TS, McKenna, JA, Khan, A, Blinov, VE, Buzykaev, AR, Druzhinin, VP, Golubev, VB, Kravchenko, EA, Onuchin, AP, Serednyakov, SI, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, EP, Todyshev, K Yu, Yushkov, AN, Bondioli, M, Kirkby, D, Lankford, AJ, Mandelkern, M, Stoker, DP, Atmacan, H, Gary, JW, Liu, F, Long, O, Vitug, GM, Campagnari, C, Hong, TM, Kovalskyi, D, Richman, JD, West, CA, Eisner, AM, Kroseberg, J, Lockman, WS, Martinez, AJ, Schalk, T, Schumm, BA, Seiden, A, Cheng, CH, Doll, DA, Echenard, B, Flood, KT, Hitlin, DG, Ongmongkolkul, P, Porter, FC, Rakitin, AY, Andreassen, R, Dubrovin, MS, Huard, Z, Meadows, BT, Sokoloff, MD, Sun, L, Bloom, PC, Ford, WT, Gaz, A, Nagel, M, Nauenberg, U, Smith, JG, Wagner, SR, Ayad, R, Toki, WH, Spaan, B, Kobel, MJ, Schubert, KR, Schwierz, R, Bernard, D, Verderi, M, Clark, PJ, Playfer, S, Bettoni, D, Bozzi, C, Calabrese, R, Cibinetto, G, Fioravanti, E, Garzia, I, Luppi, E, Munerato, M, Negrini, M, Piemontese, L, Santoro, V, Baldini-Ferroli, R, Calcaterra, A, and de Sangro, R
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Astronomical and Space Sciences ,Atomic ,Molecular ,Nuclear ,Particle and Plasma Physics ,Quantum Physics ,Nuclear & Particles Physics - Abstract
We report an analysis of charmless hadronic decays of charged B mesons to the final state K+π0π0, using a data sample of (470.9±2.8)×106 BB̄ events collected with the BABAR detector at the Υ(4S) resonance. We observe an excess of signal events, with a significance above 10 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties, and measure the branching fraction and CP asymmetry to be B(B +→K+π0π0)=(16.2±1.2±1.5) ×10-6 and ACP(B+→K +π0π0)=-0.06±0.06±0.04, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. Additionally, we study the contributions of the B+→K*(892) +π0, B+→f0(980)K+, and B+→χc0K+ quasi-two-body decays. We report the world's best measurements of the branching fraction and CP asymmetry of the B+→K+π0π0 and B+→K *(892)+π0 channels. © 2011 American Physical Society.
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- 2011