Observation of B→φK and B→φK

被引:66
作者
Brier, RA [1 ]
Chen, GP
Ferguson, T
Vogel, H
Gritsan, A
Alexander, JP
Baker, R
Bebek, C
Berger, BE
Berkelman, K
Blanc, F
Boisvert, V
Cassel, DG
Drell, PS
Duboscq, JE
Ecklund, KM
Ehrlich, R
Gaidarev, P
Gibbons, L
Gittelman, B
Gray, SW
Hartill, DL
Heltsley, BK
Hopman, PI
Hsu, L
Jones, CD
Kandaswamy, J
Kreinick, DL
Lohner, M
Magerkurth, A
Meyer, TO
Mistry, NB
Nordberg, E
Palmer, M
Patterson, JR
Peterson, D
Riley, D
Romano, A
Thayer, JG
Urner, D
Valant-Spaight, B
Viehhauser, G
Warburton, A
Avery, P
Prescott, C
Rubiera, AI
Stoeck, H
Yelton, J
Brandenburg, G
Ershov, A
机构
[1] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[2] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[3] Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[4] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[5] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[6] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[7] Carleton Univ, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[8] McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[9] Ithaca Coll, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
[10] Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[11] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[12] SUNY Albany, Albany, NY 12222 USA
[13] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[14] Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA
[15] Univ Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
[16] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[17] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[18] So Methodist Univ, Dallas, TX 75275 USA
[19] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[20] Univ Texas, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[21] Univ Texas Pan Amer, Edinburg, TX 78539 USA
[22] Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN 37235 USA
[23] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[24] Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI 48202 USA
[25] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[26] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[27] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3718
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We have studied two-body charmless hadronic decays of R mesons into the final states phiK and phiK(*). Using 9.7 million B (B) over bar pairs collected with the CLEO II detector, we observe the decays B- --> phiK(-) and B-0 --> phiK(*0) with the following branching fractions: B(B- --> phiK(-)) = (5.5(-1.8)(+2.1) +/- 0.6) x 10(-6) and B(B-0 --> phiK(*0)) = (11.5(-3.7-1.7)(+4.5+1.8)) x 10(-6). We also see evidence for the decays B-0 --> phiK(0) and B- --> phiK(*-). However, since the statistical significance is not overwhelming for these modes, we determine upper limits of < 12.3 x 10(-6) and < 22.5 x 10(-6) (90% confidence level), respectively.
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页码:3718 / 3721
页数:4
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