- Main
Measurement of branching fractions and search for CP-violating charge asymmetries in charmless two-body B decays into pions and kaons.
- Author(s): Aubert, B
- Boutigny, D
- Gaillard, JM
- Hicheur, A
- Karyotakis, Y
- Lees, JP
- Robbe, P
- Tisserand, V
- Palano, A
- Chen, GP
- Chen, JC
- Qi, ND
- Rong, G
- Wang, P
- Zhu, YS
- Eigen, G
- Reinertsen, PL
- Stugu, B
- Abbott, B
- Abrams, GS
- Borgland, AW
- Breon, AB
- Brown, DN
- Button-Shafer, J
- Cahn, RN
- Clark, AR
- Fan, Q
- Gill, MS
- Gowdy, SJ
- Gritsan, A
- Groysman, Y
- Jacobsen, RG
- Kadel, RW
- Kadyk, J
- Kerth, LT
- Kluth, S
- Kolomensky, YG
- Kral, JF
- LeClerc, C
- Levi, ME
- Liu, T
- Lynch, G
- Meyer, AB
- Momayezi, M
- Oddone, PJ
- Perazzo, A
- Pripstein, M
- Roe, NA
- Romosan, A
- Ronan, MT
- Shelkov, VG
- Telnov, AV
- Wenzel, WA
- Bright-Thomas, PG
- Harrison, TJ
- Hawkes, CM
- Kirk, A
- Knowles, DJ
- O'Neale, SW
- Penny, RC
- Watson, AT
- Watson, NK
- Deppermann, T
- Koch, H
- Krug, J
- Kunze, M
- Lewandowski, B
- Peters, K
- Schmuecker, H
- Steinke, M
- Andress, JC
- Barlow, NR
- Bhimji, W
- Chevalier, N
- Clark, PJ
- Cottingham, WN
- De Groot, N
- Dyce, N
- Foster, B
- Mass, A
- McFall, JD
- Wallom, D
- Wilson, FF
- Abe, K
- Hearty, C
- Mattison, TS
- McKenna, JA
- Thiessen, D
- Camanzi, B
- Jolly, S
- McKemey, AK
- Tinslay, J
- Blinov, VE
- Bukin, AD
- Bukin, DA
- Buzykaev, AR
- Dubrovin, MS
- Golubev, VB
- Ivanchenko, VN
- Korol, AA
- Kravchenko, EA
- Onuchin, AP
- Salnikov, AA
- Serednyakov, SI
- Skovpen, YI
- Telnov, VI
- Yushkov, AN
- Lankford, AJ
- Mandelkern, M
- McMahon, S
- Stoker, DP
- Ahsan, A
- Arisaka, K
- Buchanan, C
- Chun, S
- Branson, JG
- MacFarlane, DB
- Prell, S
- Rahatlou, S
- Raven, G
- Sharma, V
- Campagnari, C
- Dahmes, B
- Hart, PA
- Kuznetsova, N
- Levy, SL
- Long, O
- Lu, A
- Richman, JD
- Verkerke, W
- Witherell, M
- Yellin, S
- Beringer, J
- Dorfan, DE
- Eisner, AM
- Frey, A
- Grillo, AA
- Grothe, M
- Heusch, CA
- Johnson, RP
- Kroeger, W
- Lockman, WS
- Pulliam, T
- Sadrozinski, H
- Schalk, T
- Schmitz, RE
- Schumm, BA
- Seiden, A
- Turri, M
- Walkowiak, W
- Williams, DC
- Wilson, MG
- Chen, E
- Dubois-Felsmann, GP
- Dvoretskii, A
- Hitlin, DG
- Metzler, S
- Oyang, J
- Porter, FC
- Ryd, A
- Samuel, A
- Weaver, M
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- Zhu, RY
- Devmal, S
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Abstract
We present measurements, based on a sample of approximately 23x10(6) BB pairs, of the branching fractions and a search for CP-violating charge asymmetries in charmless hadronic decays of B mesons into two-body final states of kaons and pions. We find the branching fractions B(B0-->pi(+)pi(-)) = (4.1+/-1.0+/-0.7)x10(-6), B(B0-->K+pi(-)) = (16.7+/-1.6+/-1.3)x10(-6), B(B+-->K+pi(0)) = (10.8(+2.1)(-1.9)+/-1.0)x10(-6), B(B+-->K0pi(+)) = (18.2(+3.3)(-3.0)+/-2.0)x10(-6), B(B0-->K0pi(0)) = (8.2(+3.1)(-2.7)+/-1.2)x10(-6). We also report 90% confidence level upper limits for B meson decays to the pi(+)pi(0), K+K-, and K0K+ final states. In addition, charge asymmetries have been found to be consistent with zero, where the statistical precision is in the range of +/-0.10 to +/-0.18, depending on the decay mode.
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