Measurement of branching fractions of B decays to K{sub 1}(1270){pi} and K{sub 1}(1400){pi} and determination of the CKM angle {alpha} from B{sup 0{yields}}a{sub 1}(1260){sup {+-}{pi}{+-}}

Journal Article · Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.052009· OSTI ID:21409820

Aubert, B; Karyotakis, Y; Lees, J P; Poireau, V; Prencipe, E; Prudent, X; Tisserand, V ^[1]; Garra Tico, J; Grauges, E ^[2]; Martinelli, M; Palano, A; Pappagallo, M ^[3]; Eigen, G; Stugu, B; Sun, L ^[4]; Battaglia, M; Brown, D N; Hooberman, B; Kerth, L T; Kolomensky, Yu G ^[5]

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1. Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Universite de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux (France)
2. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
3. INFN Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
4. University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)
5. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

We report measurements of the branching fractions of neutral and charged B meson decays to final states containing a K{sub 1}(1270) or K{sub 1}(1400) meson and a charged pion. The data, collected with the BABAR detector at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, correspond to 454x10{sup 6} BB pairs produced in e{sup +}e{sup -} annihilation. We measure the branching fractions B(B{sup 0{yields}}K{sub 1}(1270){sup +{pi}-}+K{sub 1}(1400){sup +{pi}-})=3.1{sub -0.7}{sup +0.8}x10{sup -5} and B(B{sup +{yields}}K{sub 1}(1270){sup 0{pi}+}+K{sub 1}(1400){sup 0{pi}+})=2.9{sub -1.7}{sup +2.9}x10{sup -5} (<8.2x10{sup -5} at 90% confidence level), where the errors are statistical and systematic combined. The B{sup 0} decay mode is observed with a significance of 7.5{sigma}, while a significance of 3.2{sigma} is obtained for the B{sup +} decay mode. Based on these results, we estimate the weak phase {alpha}=(79{+-}7{+-}11) deg. from the time-dependent CP asymmetries in B{sup 0{yields}}a{sub 1}(1260){sup {+-}{pi}{+-}}decays.

• OSTI ID: 21409820
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 81, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.052009; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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