Observation of B --> K(+/-) pi(0) and B --> (K)0 pi(0), and evidence for B --> pi(+)pi(-). Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We have studied charmless hadronic decays of B mesons into two-body final states with kaons and pions and observe three new processes with the following branching fractions: beta(B-->pi(+)pi(-)) = (4.3(+1. 6)(-1.4)+/-0.5)x10(-6), beta(B-->K(0)pi(0)) = (14.6(+5.9+2.4)(-5.1-3. 3))x10(-6), and beta(B-->K(+)/-pi(0)) = (11.6(+3.0+1.4)(-2.7-1.3))x10(-6). We also update our previous measurements for the decays B-->K(+)/-pi(-/+) and B+/--->K(0)pi(+/-).

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Cronin-Hennessey, D., Kwon, Y., Lyon, A. L., Thorndike, E. H., Jessop, C. P., Mariske, H., ... Sharma, V.

citation count

  • 79

complete list of authors

  • Cronin-Hennessey, D||Kwon, Y||Lyon, AL||Thorndike, EH||Jessop, CP||Mariske, H||Perl, ML||Savinov, V||Ugolini, D||Zhou, X||Coan, TE||Fadeyez, 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||Viehauser, G||Wang, JC||Wolf, A||Wu, J||Csorna, SE||Danko, I||McLean, KW||Márka, S||Xu, Z||Godang, R||Kinoshita, K||Lai, IC||Schrenk, S||Bonvicini, G||Cinabro, D||Perera, LP||Zhou, GJ||Eigen, G||Lipeles, E||Sharma, V

publication date

  • July 2000