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Observation of Exclusive Two-Body B Decays to Kaons and Pions

Godang, R. and Chadha, M. and Chan, S. and Eigen, G. and Miller, J. S. and O'Grady, C. and Schmidtler, M. and Urheim, J. and Würthwein, F. and Weinstein, Alan J. (1998) Observation of Exclusive Two-Body B Decays to Kaons and Pions. Physical Review Letters, 80 (16). pp. 3456-3460. ISSN 0031-9007. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.3456. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20120117-153811265

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Abstract

We have studied two-body charmless hadronic decays of B mesons into the final states ππ, Kπ, and KK. Using 3.3×10^6 BB̅ pairs collected with the CLEO-II detector, we have made the first observation of the decay B^0 → K^(+)π^(-), the sum of B^(+) → π^(+)π^(0) and B^(+) → K^(+)π^(0) decays, and see strong evidence for the decay B^(+) → K^(0)π^(+) (an average over charge-conjugate states is always implied). We place upper limits on branching fractions for the remaining decay modes.


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Weinstein, Alan J.0000-0002-0928-6784
Additional Information:© 1998 American Physical Society. Received 17 November 1997; published in the issue dated 20 April 1998. We gratefully acknowledge the effort of the CESR staff in providing us with excellent luminosity and running conditions. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Heisenberg Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Research Corporation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the A. P. Sloan Foundation.
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Issue or Number:16
Classification Code:PACS: 13.25.Hw, 11.30.Er, 14.40.Nd
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.3456
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