Charmless Hadronic B Decays at BABAR
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We present preliminary results of several searches for rare charmless hadronic decays of the B meson using data collected by the BABAR detector at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's PEP-II storage ring. We search for the decays h^+h^-, h^+h^-h^+, h^+h^-pi^0, X^0h^+, and X^0 K_S^0, where h = pi or K, and X^0 = eta^prime or omega. In a sample of 8.8 million B-anti-B decays we measure the branching fractions: BF(B^0 --> pi^+pi^-) = (9.3^{+2.6}_{-2.3}^{+1.2}_{-1.4}) x 10^{-6}, BF(B^0 --> K^+pi^-) = (12.5^{+3.0}_{-2.6}^{+1.3}_{-1.7}) x 10^{-6}, BF(B^0 --> rho^-pi^+) = (49 +/- 13^{+6}_{-5}) x 10^{-6}. We calculate upper limits for the modes without a significant signal.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0011031,
title = {Charmless Hadronic B Decays at BABAR},
author = {J. Olsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0011031},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 postscript figues, submitted to Proceedings of DPF2000