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Evidence for the Rare Decay B -> J/psi eta K

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2009-09-29 v1

Abstract

We report evidence for the BB meson decays, B±J/ψηK±B^\pm\to J/\psi \eta K^\pm and B0J/ψηKS0B^0\to J/\psi \eta K^0_S, using {90} million BBˉB\bar B events collected at the \ensuremathΥ(4S)\ensuremath{\Upsilon{(4S)}} resonance with the \babar detector at the PEP-II e+ee^+ e^- asymmetric-energy storage ring. We obtain preliminary branching fractions in the charged and neutral channels of (10.8±2.3(stat.)±2.4(syst.))×105(10.8\pm 2.3(stat.)\pm 2.4(syst.))\times 10^{-5} and (8.4±2.6(stat.)±2.7(syst.))×105(8.4\pm 2.6(stat.)\pm 2.7(syst.))\times 10^{-5}, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0307032,
  title  = {Evidence for the Rare Decay B -> J/psi eta K},
  author = {The BABAR Collaboration and B. Aubert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0307032},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages, 3 postscript figures, submitted to europhysics conf., HEP2003