Search for B-meson decays to b(1 rho) and b(1) K*

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Jul, 2009

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present a search for decays of BB mesons to final states with a b_1b\_1 meson and a ρ\rho or K(892)K^*(892) meson. The search is based on a data sample consisting of 465 million BBB\kern 0.18em{\kern -0.18em B}{} pairs collected by the {\slshape B\kern-0.1em{\smaller A}\kern-0.1em B\kern-0.1em{\smaller A\kern-0.2em R}} detector at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. We do not observe any statistically significant signal. The upper limits we set on the branching fractions range from 1.4 to 8.0×1068.0 \times 10^{-6} at the 90% confidence level (C.L.), including systematic uncertainties.
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  • 7 pages, 1 postscript figure, submitted to Phys. Rev. D (Rapid Communications)
  • 11.30.Er
  • 12.15.Hh
  • 13.25.Hw
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • B: pair production
  • B: hadronic decay
  • b1(1235): final state
  • B: branching ratio: upper limit
  • quantum chromodynamics: factorization
  • BaBar