OBSERVATION OF EXCLUSIVE 2-BODY B-DECAY TO KAONS AND PIONS

Authors
GODANG R KINOSHITA K LAI IC POMIANOWSKI P SCHRENK S BONVICINI G CINABRO D GREENE R PERERA LP ZHOU GJ CHADHA M CHAN S EIGEN G MILLER JS OGRADY C SCHMIDTLER M URHEIM J WEINSTEIN AJ WURTHWEIN F BLISS DW MASEK G PAAR HP PRELL S SHARMA V ASNER DM GRONBERG J HILL TS LANGE DJ MORRISON RJ NELSON HN NELSON TK ROBERTS D RYD A BALEST R BEHRENS BH FORD WT GRITSAN A PARK H ROY J SMITH JG ALEXANDER JP BAKER R BEBEK C BERGER BE BERKELMAN K BLOOM K BOISVERT V CASSEL DG CROWCROFT DS DICKSON M VONDOMBROWSKI S DRELL PS ECKLUND KM EHRLICH R FOLAND AD GAIDAREV P GALIK RS GIBBONS L GITTELMAN B GRAY SW HARTILL DL HELTSLEY BK HOPMAN PI KANDASWAMY J KIM PC KREINICK DL LEE T LIU Y MISTRY NB NG CR NORDBERG E OGG M PATTERSON JR PETERSON D RILEY D SOFFER A VALANTSPAIGHT B WARD C ATHANAS M AVERY P JONES CD LOHNER M PATTON S PRESCOTT C YELTON J ZHENG J BRANDENBURG G BRIERE RA ERSHOV A GAO YS KIM DYJ WILSON R YAMAMOTO H BROWDER TE LI Y RODRIGUEZ JL BERGFELD T EISENSTEIN BI ERNST J GLADDING GE GOLLIN GD HANS RM JOHNSON E KARLINER I MARSH MA PALMER M SELEN M THALER JJ EDWARDS KW BELLERIVE A JANICEK R MACFARLANE DB PATEL PM SADOFF AJ AMMAR R BARINGER P BEAN A BESSON D COPPAGE D DARLING C DAVIS R KOTOV S KRAVCHENKO I KWAK N ZHOU L ANDERSON S KUBOTA Y LEE SJ ONEILL JJ POLING R RIEHLE T SMITH A ALAM MS ATHAR SB LING Z MAHMOOD AH TIMM S WAPPLER F ANASTASSOV A DUBOSCQ JE FUJINO D GAN KK HART T HONSCHEID K KAGAN H KASS R LEE J SPENCER MB SUNG M UNDRUS A WANKE R WOLF A ZOELLER MM NEMATI B RICHICHI SJ ROSS WR SEVERINI H SKUBIC P BISHAI M FAST J HINSON JW MENON N MILLER DH SHIBATA EI SHIPSEY IPJ YURKO M GLENN S JOHNSON SD KWON Y ROBERTS S THORNDIKE EH JESSOP CP LINGEL K MARSISKE H PERL ML SAVINOV V UGOLINI D WANG R ZHOU X COAN TE FADEYEV V KOROLKOV I MARAVIN Y NARSKY I SHELKOV V STAECK J STROYNOWSKI R VOLOBOUEV I YE J ARTUSO M AZFAR F EFIMOV A GOLDBERG M HE D KOPP S MONETI GC MOUNTAIN R SCHUH S SKWARNICKI T STONE S VIEHHAUSER G XING X BARTELT J CSORNA SE JAIN V MCLEAN KW MARKA S
Citation
R. Godang et al., OBSERVATION OF EXCLUSIVE 2-BODY B-DECAY TO KAONS AND PIONS, Physical review letters, 80(16), 1998, pp. 3456-3460
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
80
Issue
16
Year of publication
1998
Pages
3456 - 3460
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1998)80:16<3456:OOE2BT>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
We have studied two-body charmless hadronic decays of B mesons into th e final states pi pi, K pi and KK. Using 3.3 x 10(6) B (B) over bar pa irs collected with the CLEO-II detector, we have made the first observ ation of the decay B-0 --> K(+)pi(-), the sum of B+ --> pi(+)pi(0) and B+ --> K(+)pi(0) decays, and see strong evidence for the decay B+ --> K-0 pi(+) (an average over charge-conjugate states is always implied) . We place upper limits on branching fractions for the remaining decay modes.