Rates, polarizations, and asymmetries in charmless vector-vector BB meson decays

Collaboration
Jul, 2003
7 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 91 (2003) 171802
e-Print:
Report number:
  • SLAC-PUB-10016,
  • BABAR-PUB-03-018
Experiments:

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Abstract:
With a sample of approximately 89 million BBbar pairs collected with the BABAR detector, we perform a search for B meson decays into pairs of charmless vector mesons (phi, rho, and K*). We measure the branching fractions, determine the degree of longitudinal polarization, and search for CP violation asymmetries in the processes B->phiK*+, B->phiK*0, B->rho0K*+, and B->rho0rho+. We also set an upper limit on the branching fraction for the decay B->rho0rho0.
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • Upsilon(10570): electroproduction
  • B: pair production
  • B: hadronic decay
  • vector meson: pair production
  • Phi(1020)
  • K*(892)
  • rho(770)
  • final state: (0charm)