Study of B Meson Decays with Excited eta and eta-prime Mesons

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Apr, 2008

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Abstract: (arXiv)
Using 383 million BBbar pairs from the BaBar data sample, we report results for branching fractions of six charged B-meson decay modes, where a charged kaon recoils against a charmless resonance decaying to KKbar* or etapipi final states with mass in the range (1.2-1.8)gev/c^2. We observe a significant enhancement at the low KK*bar invariant mass which is interpreted as B+ --> eta(1475)K+, find evidence for the decay B+ --> eta(1295)K+, and place upper limits on the decays B+ --> eta(1405)K+, B+ --> f_1(1285)K+, B+ --> f_1(1420)K+, and B+ --> phi(1680)K+.
Note:
  • 7 pages, 1 postscript figure, submitted to PRL
  • 12.39.St
  • 13.25.Hw
  • 12.39.Mk
  • 14.40.Cs
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • Upsilon(10570): electroproduction
  • B: pair production
  • B: hadronic decay
  • meson resonance: intermediate state