Observation of the Three-body Rare Decay B-] J/psi Phi K.
Observation of the Three-body Rare Decay B-] J/psi Phi K.

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Published: 2010

Total Pages: 19

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The authors report the study of the B meson decays B{sup ±} 2!J/[psi][phi]K{sup ±}, B° 2!J/[psi][phi]K° using 433 million of B{bar B} events collected at the [Upsilon](4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II ee− asymmetric-energy collider. They obtain the branching fraction measurements: [Beta](B{sup ±} 2!J[psi][phi]K{sup ±}) = (5.6 {+-} 0.9(stat) {+-} 0.3(sys)) x 10−5, [Beta](B{sup {+-}} 2!J[psi][phi]K°) = (5.4 {+-} 1.2(stat) {+-} 0.4(sys)) x 10−5.

B Decays
B Decays

Author: Sheldon Stone

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9789810218362

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This 2nd edition is an extensive update of "B Decays?. The revisions are necessary because of the extensive amount of new data and new theoretical ideas. This book reviews what is known about b-quark decays and also looks at what can be learned in the future.The importance of this research area is increasing, as evidenced by the approval of the luminosity upgrade for CESR and the asymmetric B factories at SLAC and KEK, and the possibility of experiments at hadron colliders.The key experimental observations made thus far, measurement of the lifetimes of the different B species, B0-B0 mixing, the discovery of ?Penguin? mediated decays, and the extraction of the CKM matrix elements Vub and Vcb from semileptonic decays, as well as more mundane results, are described in great detail by the experimentalists who have been closely involved with making the measurements. Theoretical progress in understanding b-quark decays using HQET and lattice gauge techniques are described by theorists who have developed and used these techniques.Synthesizing the experimental and theoretical information, several articles discuss the implications for the ?Standard Model? and how further tests can be done using measurements of CP violation in the B system.

Rare B Decays from the CDF Experiment
Rare B Decays from the CDF Experiment

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Published: 1998

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The high cross-section for the production of b quarks at the Tevatron hadron collider make it an ideal place to search for rare B meson species and very low branching fraction decay modes of the more common B mesons. This paper reports the recent discovery of the Bc meson by the CDF collaboration. It also discusses the observation of rare B meson final states involving?(2S) mesons and searches for ultra-rare decays such as B 2!??−

A Search for the Rare Decay [B Meson to Two Photons]
A Search for the Rare Decay [B Meson to Two Photons]

Author: Andrew Michael Ruland

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Published: 2010

Total Pages: 362

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This thesis describes a search for the rare radiative decay of a B meson to two photons. where the charged congugate mode is implied throughout. These decays are highly suppressed in the Standard Model where the branching fraction is expected to be of order 10^-8. In some new physics scenarios this could be enhanced by up to an order of magnitude to 10^-7. Therefore an observation of a significant signal above the Standard Model prediction could be a sign of new physics. The search for this rare decay was performed using the data collected with the BaBar detector at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory PEP-II storage ring operating at the Upsilon(4S) resonance. The analysis uses a dataset with an integrated luminosity of 425.7 fb-1 corresponding to 467 million BB pairs. A signal yield of 21.3 +12.8 -11.8 events with a significance of 1.88 sigma was measured using an unbinned extended maximum likelihood fit. An upper limit on the branching fraction is set at the 90% confidence level of less than 3.2 times 10^-7. This is about two times more stringent than the best upper limit of less than 6.2 times 10^-7 published by the Belle collaboration.

Flavor Physics, Proceedings Of Icfp2001
Flavor Physics, Proceedings Of Icfp2001

Author: Yue-liang Wu

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2002-05-14

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 9814488488

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This volume contains many excellent articles presenting the most recent progress in high energy physics and the current interesting problems concerning flavor physics. The reader will see how flavor physics has become a central area of particle physics, with the Standard Model (SM) being subjected to increasingly precise experiments, and why the remaining puzzles in the SM, such as the mechanisms of symmetry breaking and CP violation, as well as fermion mass and mixing generation, all are mysteries hidden in the physics of flavor. The book also shows that flavor physics is likely to be a window for probing new physics beyond the SM for many years to come.

Observation and Study of the Baryonic B-meson Decays B to D(*) P Pbar??
Observation and Study of the Baryonic B-meson Decays B to D(*) P Pbar??

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Published: 2012

Total Pages: 24

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We present results for B-meson decay modes involving a charm meson, protons, and pions using 455 x 106 B{bar B} pairs recorded by the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy ee− collider. The branching fractions are measured for the following ten decays: {bar B}° → D°p{bar p}, {bar B}° → D*°p{bar p}, {bar B}° → D+p{bar p}?−, {bar B}° → D*+p{bar p}?−, B− → D°p{bar p}?−, B− → D*°pp?−, {bar B}° → D°p{bar p}?−?+, {bar B}° → D*°p{bar p}?−?+, B− → D+p{bar p}?−?−, and B− → D*+p{bar p}?−?−. The four B− and the two five-body B° modes are observed for the first time. The four-body modes are enhanced compared to the three- and the five-body modes. In the three-body modes, the M(p{bar p}) and M(D{sup (*)0}p) invariant mass distributions show enhancements near threshold values. In the four-body mode {bar B}° → D+p{bar p}?−, the M(p?−) distribution shows a narrow structure of unknown origin near 1.5GeV/c2. The distributions for the five-body modes, in contrast to the others, are similar to the expectations from uniform phase-space predictions.

OBSERVATION OF EXCLUSIVE TWO-BODY B DECAYS TO KAONS AND PIONS.
OBSERVATION OF EXCLUSIVE TWO-BODY B DECAYS TO KAONS AND PIONS.

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Published: 2003

Total Pages: 9

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We have studied two-body charmless hadronic decays of B mesons into the final states??, K?, and KK. Using 3.3 million B{bar B} pairs collected with the CLEO-II detector, we have made the first observation of the decays B° → K?−, B+ → K°?+, and the sum of B+ →?+?° and B+ → K+?° decays (an average over charge-conjugate states is always implied). We place upper limits on branching fractions for the remaining decay modes.