Published November 14, 2008 | Version v1
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Searches for B Meson Decays to φφ, φρ, φf0(980), and f0(980)f0(980) Final States

Creators

  • 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. Dipartmento di Fisica, Universita di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 4. INFN Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 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 the results of searches for B decays to charmless final states involving φ, f0(980), and charged or neutral ρ mesons. The data sample corresponds to 384x106 BB pairs collected with the BABAR detector operating at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider at SLAC. We find no significant signals and determine the following 90% confidence level upper limits on the branching fractions, including systematic uncertainties: B(B0→φφ)<2.0x10-7, B(B+→φρ+)<30x10-7, B(B0→φρ0)<3.3x10-7, B[B0→φf0(980)]xB[f0(980)→π+π-]<3.8x10-7, and B[B0→f0(980)f0(980)]xB[f0(980)→π+π-]xB[f0(980)→K+K-]<2.3x10-7

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.201801;
arXiv
arXiv:0807.3935v2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
101
Journal Issue
20
Journal Page Range
p. 201801-201801.7
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
40054106
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ASYMMETRY; B NEUTRAL MESONS; B PLUS MESONS; BRANCHING RATIO; F0-980 MESONS; KAONS MINUS; KAONS PLUS; PAIR PRODUCTION; PARTICLE DECAY; PHI MESONS; PIONS MINUS; PIONS PLUS; RHO-770 MESONS; STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER
Descriptors DEC
B MESONS; BEAUTY MESONS; BEAUTY PARTICLES; BOSONS; DECAY; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; HADRONS; INTERACTIONS; KAONS; MESONS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; PIONS; PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS; SCALAR MESONS; STRANGE MESONS; STRANGE PARTICLES; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; VECTOR MESONS

Optional Information

Notes
(c) 2008 The American Physical Society
Collaborations
BABAR Collaboration