Search for the b ---> d gamma process

Collaboration
May, 2005
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 72 (2005) 011101
Contribution to:
e-Print:
Report number:
  • KEK-PREPRINT-2005-29,
  • BELLE-PREPRINT-2005-22
Experiments:

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Abstract:
We report the results of a search for the flavor-changing neutral current process b --> d gamma using a sample of 275 million B meson pairs accumulated by the Belle detector at KEKB. We find no significant signal for the exclusive decays B- --> rho- gamma, B0B --> rho0 gamma, or B0B --> omega gamma. Assuming an isospin relation between the three modes, we set an upper limit for the combined branching fraction Br(B --> (rho,omega) gamma) < 1.4 x 10-6 at the 90% confidence level. This limit can be used to constrain the ratio of CKM matrix elements |Vtd/Vts|.
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