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We report on the first Belle II measurements of branching fractions and CP-violating charge asymmetries in charmless $B$ decays. We use 34.6 fb$^{-1}$ from electron-positron collisions collected in 2019 and 2020 at the $\Upsilon(4S)$…
We report an analysis of the charmless hadronic decays of charged B meson to the final state K+pi0pi0, using a data sample of 470+/-2.8 million BBbar events collected at the Y(4S) resonance. We observe an excess of signal events, with a…
We present a study of the rare charm meson decays $ D^{0}\rightarrow K^{+}K^{-}e^{+}e^{-} $, $ \pi^{+}\pi^{-}e^{+}e^{-} $, and $ K^{-}\pi^{+}e^{+}e^{-} $ using a 942 fb$^{-1}$ data set collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB…
We have measured the branching fraction, longitudinal polarization fraction f_L, and the CP asymmetry coefficients A and S in B0 -> rho+rho- decays. These results are obtained from a 253 fb-1 data sample containing 275 million B\bar{B}…
We have measured the branching fractions for the exclusive decay modes $B\to {\chi}_{c1(2)} K(K^*)$ using a $140~{\rm fb}^{-1}$ data sample collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^+e^-$ collider. The measured…
We report a measurement of the branching fraction for the decay $B^+ \to \rho^+\pi^0$ based on a 140 ${\rm fb}^{-1}$ data sample collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric $e^+e^-$ collider. We measure the branching fraction…
We report on recent results on charmless hadronic and radiative rare $B_s^0$ decays, based on the data collected by the Belle experiment at the KEKB $e^+e^-$ collider. These include the studies of $B_s^0\rightarrow K^0\bar{K^0}$,…
We report a measurement of the decay B0 --> rho0 pi0, using 386 x 10^6 BB-bar pairs collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. We detect 51^{+14}_{-13} signal events with a…
I summarize results and performance of the dynamical theory of charmless hadronic B decays, based on QCD factorization in the heavy quark limit. On the theoretical side, a number of NNLO (alpha_s^2) amplitudes are now available, all showing…
We present a measurement of the branching fractions of the Cabibbo favored $\overline{B}{}^0\rightarrow D^{+}\pi^{-}$ and the Cabibbo suppressed $\overline{B}{}^0\rightarrow D^{+}K^{-}$ decays. We find…
We present measurements of time-dependent asymmetries in decays of neutral B mesons to the final states B0 -> rho+ pi-. Measurements are based on a 140 fb-1 data sample collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the…
We report results of a search for the charmless two-body baryonic decays B^0 \to p \bar{p}, B^0 \to \Lambda \bar{\Lambda}, and B^+\to p \bar{\Lambda} based on the analysis of a 140 fb^{-1} data sample. We set 90% confidence level upper…
We report evidence for exclusive two-body charmless hadronic B meson decays B-> eta' pi, and improved measurements of B-> eta' K. The results are obtained from a data sample of 386 x 10^6 BBbar pairs collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance,…
A study of the charmless semileptonic decay B0 to pi- l+ nu using a large sample of untagged Upsilon(4S) to B Bbar events collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric e+ e- collider is presented. The branching fraction of the…
We present a measurement of the branching fraction for the Cabibbo- and color-suppressed $B^0 \to \chi_{c1}\pi^0$ decay based on a data sample of $657\times 10^6$ $B\bar B$ events collected at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the Belle…
We present an analysis of exclusive charmless semileptonic B-meson decays based on 83 million BBbar pairs recorded with the BABAR detector at the Upsilon(4S) resonance. Using isospin symmetry, we measure branching fractions B(B0 --> pi- l+…
We present a search for the rare decays B -> h(*) nu nubar, where h(*) stands for a light meson. A data sample of 535 million BBbar pairs collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- collider is used. Signal candidates are required to…
We present a Dalitz-plot analysis of charmless B+- decays to the final state pi+- pi+- pi-+ using 210 fb^-1 of data recorded by the BABAR experiment at sqrt(s) = 10.58 GeV. We measure the branching fractions B(B+- -> pi+- pi+- pi-+) = (16.2…
We report an observation of the decay B^\pm -> \phi \phi K^\pm and evidence for B^0 -> \phi \phi K^0. These results are based on a 414 fb^{-1} data sample collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e^+e^- collider…
We have measured the branching fraction B, longitudinal polarization fraction f_L, and CP asymmetry coefficients A and S for B0->rho+rho- decays with the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- collider using 253 fb-1 of data. We obtain B = [22.8…