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

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Behrens, BH [1 ]
Ford, WT
Gritsan, A
Krieg, H
Roy, J
Smith, JG
Zhao, M
Alexander, JP
Baker, R
Bebek, C
Berger, BE
Berkelman, K
Bloom, K
Boisvert, V
Cassel, DG
Crowcroft, DS
Dickson, M
von Dombrowski, S
Drell, PS
Ecklund, KM
Ehrlich, R
Foland, AD
Gaidarev, P
Gibbons, L
Gittelman, B
Gray, SW
Hartill, DL
Heltsley, BK
Hopman, PI
Kandaswamy, J
Kim, PC
Kreinick, DL
Lee, T
Liu, Y
Mistry, NB
Ng, CR
Nordberg, E
Ogg, M
Patterson, JR
Peterson, D
Riley, D
Soffer, A
Valant-Spaight, B
Ward, C
Athanas, M
Avery, P
Jones, CD
Lohner, M
Patton, S
Prescott, C
机构
[1] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[2] Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[3] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[4] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[5] Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 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] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[16] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[17] Stanford Univ, Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr, Stanford, CA 94309 USA
[18] So Methodist Univ, Dallas, TX 75275 USA
[19] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[20] Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN 37235 USA
[21] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[22] Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI 48202 USA
[23] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[24] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[25] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[26] Univ Texas, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[27] Univ Calif Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94551 USA
[28] BINP, RU-630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
[29] Yonsei Univ, Seoul 120749, South Korea
[30] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.3710
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
In a sample of 6.6 x 10(6) produced B mesons we have observed decays B --> eta'K, with branching fractions B(B+ --> eta'K+)= (6.5(-1.4)(+1.5) +/- 0.9) X 10(-5) and B(B-0 --> eta'K-0) = (4.7(-2.0)(+2.7) +/- 0.9) X 10(-5). We have searched with comparable sensitivity for 17 related decays to final states containing an eta or eta' meson accompanied by a single particle or low-lying resonance. Our upper limits for these constrain theoretical interpretations of the B --> eta'K signal.
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页码:3710 / 3714
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