Evidence for Neutral B Meson Decays to omega K*0

Collaboration
Jul, 2008
12 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 101 (2008) 231801
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Report number:
  • UCHEP-08-04
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present the results of a study of the charmless vector-vector decay B0->wK*0 with 657x10^6 BB(bar) pairs collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- collider. We measure the branching fraction to be B(B0->wK*0)=[1.8+/-0.7(stat)+0.3-0.2(syst)]x10^-6 with 3.0sigma significance. We also perform a helicity analysis of the w and K*0 vector mesons, and obtain the longitudinal polarization fraction fL(B0->wK*0)=0.56+/-0.29(stat)+0.18-0.08(syst). Finally, we measure a large non-resonant branching fraction B(B->wK+pi-/ M(Kpi)\in(0.755,1.250) GeV/c^2)=[5.1+/-0.7(stat)+/-0.7(syst)]x10^-6 with a significance of 9.5sigma.
  • 12.15.Hh
  • 13.25.Hw
  • 13.88.+e
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • B: pair production
  • B0: branching ratio
  • B0: hadronic decay
  • final state: (0charm)
  • omega(783)
  • K*(892)