Two-body B meson decays to η and η′:: Observation of B→ηK

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作者
Richichi, SJ
Severini, H
Skubic, P
Undrus, A
Chen, S
Fast, J
Hinson, JW
Lee, J
Menon, N
Miller, DH
Shibata, EI
Shipsey, IPJ
Pavlunin, V
Cronin-Hennessy, D
Kwon, Y
Lyon, AL
Thorndike, EH
Jessop, CP
Marsiske, H
Perl, ML
Savinov, V
Ugolini, D
Zhou, X
Coan, TE
Fadeyev, V
Maravin, Y
Narsky, I
Stroynowski, R
Ye, J
Wlodek, T
Artuso, M
Ayad, R
Boulahouache, C
Bukin, K
Dambasuren, E
Karamnov, S
Kopp, S
Majumder, G
Moneti, GC
Mountain, R
Schuh, S
Skwarnicki, T
Stone, S
Viehhauser, G
Wang, JC
Wolf, A
Wu, J
Csorna, SE
Danko, I
McLean, KW
机构
[1] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[2] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[3] Stanford Univ, Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr, Stanford, CA 94309 USA
[4] So Methodist Univ, Dallas, TX 75275 USA
[5] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[6] Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN 37235 USA
[7] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[8] Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI 48202 USA
[9] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[10] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[11] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[12] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[13] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[14] Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[15] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[16] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[17] Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[18] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[19] Carleton Univ, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[20] McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[21] Ithaca Coll, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
[22] Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[23] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[24] SUNY Albany, Albany, NY 12222 USA
[25] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[26] Yonsei Univ, Seoul 120749, South Korea
[27] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[28] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[29] Univ Texas Pan Amer, Edinburg, TX 78539 USA
[30] Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.520
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
In a sample of 19 x 10(6) produced B mesons, we have observed the decays B --> eta K* and improved our previous measurements of B --> eta'K. The branching fractions we measure for these decay modes are B(B+ --> eta K*(+)) = (26.4(-8.2)(+9.6) +/- 3.3) X 10(-6), B(B-0 --> eta K*(0)) = (13.8(-4.6)(+5.5) +/- 1.6) X 10(-6) B(B+ --> eta'K+) = (80(-9)(+10) +/- 7) X 10(-6), and B(B-0 --> eta'K-0) = (89(-16)(+18) +/- 9) X 10(-6). We have searched with comparable sensitivity for related decays and report upper limits for these branching fractions.
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