Published November 17, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurement of Branching Fractions and Charge Asymmetries in B Decays to an η Meson and a K* Meson

  • 1. Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, IN2P3/CNRS et Universite de Savoie, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux (France)
  • 2. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
  • 3. Universita di Bari, Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 4. Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100039 (China)
  • 5. University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)
  • 6. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

Description

We present measurements of branching fractions and charge asymmetries for the decays B→ηK*, where K* indicates a spin 0, 1, or 2 Kπ system. The data sample corresponds to 344x106 BB pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider at SLAC. We measure the branching fractions (in units of 10-6): B(B0→ηK*0(892))=16.5±1.1±0.8, B(B+→ηK*+(892))=18.9±1.8±1.3, B(B0→η(Kπ)0*0)=11.0±1.6±1.5, B(B+→η(Kπ)0*+)=18.2±2.6±2.6, B(B0→ηK2*0(1430))=9.6±1.8±1.1, and B(B+→ηK2*+(1430))=9.1±2.7±1.4. We also determine the charge asymmetries for all decay modes

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
97
Journal Issue
20
Journal Page Range
p. 201802-201802.7
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

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(c) 2006 The American Physical Society
Collaborations
BABAR Collaboration