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Observation of B --> K(+/-) pi(0) and B --> (K)0 pi(0), and evidence for B --> pi(+)pi(-).

Authors :
Cronin-Hennessey D
Kwon Y
Lyon AL
Thorndike EH
Jessop CP
Mariske H
Perl ML
Savinov V
Ugolini D
Zhou X
Coan TE
Fadeyez V
Maravin Y
Narsky I
Stroynowski R
Ye J
Wlodek T
Artuso M
Ayad R
Boulahouache C
Bukin K
Dambasuren E
Karamnov S
Kopp S
Majumder G
Moneti GC
Mountain R
Schuh S
Skwarnicki T
Stone S
Viehauser G
Wang JC
Wolf A
Wu J
Csorna SE
Danko I
McLean KW
Márka S
Xu Z
Godang R
Kinoshita K
Lai IC
Schrenk S
Bonvicini G
Cinabro D
Perera LP
Zhou GJ
Eigen G
Lipeles E
Sharma V
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2000 Jul 17; Vol. 85 (3), pp. 515-9.
Publication Year :
2000

Abstract

We have studied charmless hadronic decays of B mesons into two-body final states with kaons and pions and observe three new processes with the following branching fractions: beta(B-->pi(+)pi(-)) = (4.3(+1. 6)(-1.4)+/-0.5)x10(-6), beta(B-->K(0)pi(0)) = (14.6(+5.9+2.4)(-5.1-3. 3))x10(-6), and beta(B-->K(+)/-pi(0)) = (11.6(+3.0+1.4)(-2.7-1.3))x10(-6). We also update our previous measurements for the decays B-->K(+)/-pi(-/+) and B+/--->K(0)pi(+/-).

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0031-9007
Volume :
85
Issue :
3
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
10991329
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.515