Measurements of Charmless Hadronic b ---> s Penguin Decays in the pi+ pi- K+ pi- Final State and Observation of B0 ---> rho0 K+ pi-

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May, 2009

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2009201320172021202401234
Abstract: (arXiv)
We report measurements of charmless hadronic B0B^{0} decays into the \pipiKpi final state. The analysis uses a sample of \NBBUsed \BBbar pairs collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy \epem collider at the \Y4S resonance. The decay B^0\to\rzKpi is observed for the first time/ the significance is 5.0σ5.0\sigma and the corresponding partial branching fraction for \MKpi \in (0.75,1.20) \GeVcc is [\absBFrzKpi]\BFunit. We also obtain the first evidence for B^0 \to \fzKpi with \SfzKpi\sigma significance and for B^0 \to\pipiKstz with \SpipiKstz\sigma significance. For the two-body decays B^0\to\rzKstz and B^0\to\fzKstz, the significances are 2.7σ2.7\sigma and 2.5σ2.5\sigma, respectively, and the upper limits on the branching fractions are 3.4\BFunit and 2.2\BFunit at 90% confidence level.
Note:
  • 6 pages, 3 figures. submitted to PRL
  • 11.30.Er
  • 13.25.Hw
  • 14.40.Nd
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • B: pair production
  • B0: branching ratio
  • B0: hadronic decay
  • final state: (0charm)
  • Feynman graph: penguin
  • BELLE