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Evidence forB+→K¯0K+andB0→K0K¯0, and Measurement of the Branching Fraction and Search for DirectCPViolation inB+→K0π+
- Source :
- Physical Review Letters. 95
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 2005.
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Abstract
- The authors present evidence for the b {yields} d penguin-dominated decays B{sup +} {yields} {bar K}{sup 0}K{sup +} and B{sup 0} {yields} K{sup 0}{bar K}{sup 0} with significances of 3.5 and 4.5 standard deviations, respectively. The results are based on a sample of 227 million {Upsilon}(4S) {yields} B{bar B} decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e{sup +}e{sup -} collider at SLAC. We measure the branching fractions {Beta}(B{sup +} {yields} {bar K}{sup 0}K{sup +}) = (1.5 {+-} 0.5 {+-} 0.1) x 10{sup -6} (< 2.4 x 10{sup -6}) and {Beta}(B{sup 0} {yields} K{sup 0}{bar K}{sup 0}) = (1.19{sub -0.35}{sup +0.40} {+-} 0.13) x 10{sup -6}, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively, and the upper limit on the branching fraction for {bar K}{sup 0}K{sup +} is at the 90% confidence level. They also present improved measurements of the charge-averaged branching fraction {Beta}(B{sup +} {yields} K{sup 0}{pi}{sup +}) = (26.0 {+-} 1.3 {+-} 1.0) x 10{sup -6} and CP-violating charge asymmetry {Alpha}{sub CP} (K{sup 0}{pi}{sup +}) = -0.09 {+-} 0.05 {+-} 0.01, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Particle physics
Meson
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Branching fraction
Electron–positron annihilation
Hadron
General Physics and Astronomy
Elementary particle
Charge (physics)
01 natural sciences
Nuclear physics
Particle decay
Crystallography
0103 physical sciences
CP violation
B meson
010306 general physics
Dimensionless quantity
Bar (unit)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10797114 and 00319007
- Volume :
- 95
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....edf4af5c1855c371bb71cfc848eecf90