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Observation of the decay $B^0 \to \eta' K^*(892)^0$

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2014-10-23 v1

Abstract

We report a search for charmless hadronic decays of neutral BB mesons to ηK(892)0\eta' K^{*}(892)^{0}. The results are based on a 711fb1^{-1} data sample that contains 772×106BB772\times 10^6 B\overline{B} pairs, collected at the Υ(4S)\Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric energy e+ee^+e^- collider. We observe the decay for the first time with a significance of 5.0 standard deviations and obtain its branching fraction B[B0ηK(892)0]=[2.6±0.7(stat)±0.2(syst)]×106{\cal B}[B^0\to\eta' K^{*}(892)^{0}]=[2.6\pm0.7{\rm (stat)}\pm0.2{\rm (syst)}]\times 10^{-6}. We also measure the CPCP violating asymmetry as ACP[B0ηK(892)0]=0.22±0.29(stat)±0.07syst{\cal A}_{CP}[B^0\to\eta' K^{*}(892)^{0}]=-0.22\pm0.29{\rm (stat)}\pm0.07{\rm syst}.

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@article{arxiv.1408.6343,
  title  = {Observation of the decay $B^0 \to \eta' K^*(892)^0$},
  author = {Belle Collaboration and S. Sato and Y. Yusa and G. B. Mohanty and A. Abdesselam and I. Adachi and H. Aihara and S. Al Said and D. M. Asner and T. Aushev and R. Ayad and S. Bahinipati and A. M. Bakich and V. Bansal and V. Bhardwaj and B. Bhuyan and G. Bonvicini and A. Bozek and M. Bračko and T. E. Browder and D. Červenkov and P. Chang and V. Chekelian and A. Chen and B. G. Cheon and K. Chilikin and K. Cho and V. Chobanova and Y. Choi and D. Cinabro and J. Dalseno and M. Danilov and Z. Doležal and Z. Drásal and A. Drutskoy and S. Eidelman and H. Farhat and J. E. Fast and T. Ferber and O. Frost and V. Gaur and S. Ganguly and A. Garmash and R. Gillard and R. Glattauer and Y. M. Goh and B. Golob and O. Grzymkowska and K. Hayasaka and H. Hayashii and X. H. He and T. Higuchi and W. -S. Hou and M. Huschle and T. Iijima and K. Inami and A. Ishikawa and R. Itoh and Y. Iwasaki and I. Jaegle and K. K. Joo and T. Julius and E. Kato and T. Kawasaki and D. Y. Kim and J. B. Kim and J. H. Kim and K. T. Kim and M. J. Kim and Y. J. Kim and K. Kinoshita and J. Klucar and B. R. Ko and P. Kodyš and S. Korpar and P. Križan and P. Krokovny and T. Kuhr and T. Kumita and Y. -J. Kwon and J. Li and Y. Li and J. Libby and D. Liventsev and D. Matvienko and K. Miyabayashi and H. Miyata and R. Mizuk and A. Moll and E. Nakano and M. Nakao and T. Nanut and Z. Natkaniec and E. Nedelkovska and N. K. Nisar and S. Nishida and S. Ogawa and S. Okuno and P. Pakhlov and G. Pakhlova and H. Park and T. K. Pedlar and M. Petrič and L. E. Piilonen and M. Ritter and A. Rostomyan and Y. Sakai and S. Sandilya and L. Santelj and T. Sanuki and Y. Sato and V. Savinov and O. Schneider and G. Schnell and C. Schwanda and A. J. Schwartz and D. Semmler and K. Senyo and O. Seon and M. E. Sevior and V. Shebalin and C. P. Shen and T. -A. Shibata and J. -G. Shiu and B. Shwartz and A. Sibidanov and F. Simon and Y. -S. Sohn and A. Sokolov and E. Solovieva and M. Starič and M. Steder and J. Stypula and M. Sumihama and U. Tamponi and G. Tatishvili and Y. Teramoto and F. Thorne and K. Trabelsi and M. Uchida and S. Uehara and T. Uglov and Y. Unno and S. Uno and C. Van Hulse and P. Vanhoefer and G. Varner and V. Vorobyev and M. N. Wagner and C. H. Wang and M. -Z. Wang and P. Wang and X. L. Wang and M. Watanabe and Y. Watanabe and S. Wehle and K. M. Williams and E. Won and S. Yashchenko and Y. Yook and Z. P. Zhang and V. Zhilich and V. Zhulanov and A. Zupanc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6343},
  year   = {2014}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures, submitted PRD(RC)