Search for the decay B+→ K+ v(v)over-bar -: art. no. 101801

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作者
Aubert, B [1 ]
Barate, R
Boutigny, D
Couderc, F
Gaillard, JM
Hicheur, A
Karyotakis, Y
Lees, JP
Tisserand, V
Zghiche, A
Palano, A
Pompili, A
Chen, JC
Qi, ND
Rong, G
Wang, P
Zhu, YS
Eigen, G
Ofte, I
Stugu, B
Abrams, GS
Borgland, AW
Breon, AB
Brown, DN
Button-Shafer, J
Cahn, RN
Charles, E
Day, CT
Gill, MS
Gritsan, AV
Groysman, Y
Jacobsen, RG
Kadel, RW
Kadyk, J
Kerth, LT
Kolomensky, YG
Kukartsev, G
Lynch, G
Mir, LM
Oddone, PJ
Orimoto, TJ
Pripstein, M
Roe, NA
Ronan, MT
Shelkov, VG
Wenzel, WA
Barrett, M
Ford, KE
Harrison, TJ
Hart, AJ
机构
[1] Phys Particules Lab, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[2] Univ Bari, Dipartimento Fis, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[3] Univ Bari, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[4] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[5] Univ Bergen, Inst Phys, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
[6] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[7] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[8] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[9] Ruhr Univ Bochum, Inst Expt Phys 1, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
[10] Univ Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, Avon, England
[11] Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[12] Brunel Univ, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middx, England
[13] Budker Inst Nucl Phys, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
[14] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[15] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[16] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[17] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[18] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[19] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Inst Particle Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[20] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[21] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[22] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[23] Colorado State Univ, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
[24] Tech Univ Dresden, Inst Kern & Teilchenphys, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
[25] Ecole Polytech, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[26] Univ Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Midlothian, Scotland
[27] Univ Ferrara, Dipartmento Fis, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[28] Univ Ferrara, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[29] Florida A&M Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32307 USA
[30] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[31] Univ Genoa, Dipartimento Fis, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[32] Univ Genoa, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[33] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[34] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Phys, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[35] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, London SW7 2AZ, England
[36] Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
[37] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[38] Univ Perugia, Dipartimento Fis, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[39] Univ Perugia, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[40] Lab Accelerateur Lineaire, F-91898 Orsay, France
[41] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[42] Univ Liverpool, Liverpool L69 72E, Merseyside, England
[43] Queen Mary Univ London, London E1 4NS, England
[44] Univ London Royal Holloway & Bedford New Coll, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, England
[45] Univ Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292 USA
[46] Univ Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[47] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[48] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[49] MIT, Nucl Sci Lab, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[50] McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.101801
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We search for the rare flavor-changing neutral-current decay B+ -> K+ v (v) over tilde in a data sample of 82 fb(-1) collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B-factory. Signal events are selected by examining the properties of the system recoiling against either a reconstructed hadronic or semileptonic charged-B decay. Using these two independent samples we obtain a combined limit of B(B+ -> K+ v (v) over bar) < 5.2 x10(-5) at the 90% confidence level. In addition, by selecting for pions rather than kaons, we obtain a limit of B(B+ -> pi(+) v (v) over bar) < 1.0 x 10(-4) using only the hadronic B reconstruction method.
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