Observation of B0 decay to two charmless mesons Article

Battle, M, Ernst, J, Kroha, H et al. (1993). Observation of B0 decay to two charmless mesons . PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 71(24), 3922-3926. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.3922

cited authors

  • Battle, M; Ernst, J; Kroha, H; Kwon, Y; Roberts, S; Sparks, K; Thorndike, EH; Wang, CH; Dominick, J; Sanghera, S; Shelkov, V; Skwarnicki, T; Stroynowski, R; Volobouev, I; Zadorozhny, P; Artuso, M; He, D; Goldberg, M; Horwitz, N; Kennett, R; Moneti, GC; Muheim, F; Mukhin, Y; Playfer, S; Rozen, Y; Stone, S; Thulasidas, M; Vasseur, G; Zhu, G; Bartelt, J; Csorna, SE; Egyed, Z; Jain, V; Sheldon, P; Akerib, DS; Barish, B; Chadha, M; Chan, S; Cowen, DF; Eigen, G; Miller, JS; O'Grady, C; Urheim, J; Weinstein, AJ; Acosta, D; Athanas, M; Masek, G; Paar, H; Bean, A; Gronberg, J; Kutschke, R; Menary, S; Morrison, RJ; Nakanishi, S; Nelson, HN; Nelson, TK; Richman, JD; Ryd, A; Tajima, H; Schmidt, D; Sperka, D; Witherell, MS; Procario, M; Yang, S; Balest, R; Cho, K; Daoudi, M; Ford, WT; Johnson, DR; Lingel, K; Lohner, M; Rankin, P; Smith, JG; Alexander, JP; Bebek, C; Berkelman, K; Besson, D; Browder, TE; Cassel, DG; Cho, HA; Coffman, DM; Drell, PS; Ehrlich, R; Garcia-Sciveres, M; Geiser, B; Gittelman, B; Gray, SW; Hartill, DL; Heltsley, BK; Jones, CD; Jones, SL; Kandaswamy, J; Katayama, N; Kim, PC; Kreinick, DL; Ludwig, GS; Masui, J; Mevissen, J; Mistry, NB; Ng, CR

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abstract

  • We report results from a search for the decays B0→π+π-, B0→K+π-, and B0→K+K-. We find 90% confidence level upper limits on the branching fractions, Bππ<2.9×10-5, BKπ<2.6×10-5, and BKK<0.7×10-5. While there is no statistically significant signal in the individual modes, the sum of Bππ and BKπ exceeds zero with a significance of more than 4 standard deviations, indicating that we have observed charmless hadronic B decays. © 1993 The American Physical Society.

publication date

  • January 1, 1993

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start page

  • 3922

end page

  • 3926

volume

  • 71

issue

  • 24