Evidence for semileptonic B-→pp¯ℓ-ν¯ℓ decays

Tien, K. -J.; Wang, M. -Z.; Adachi, I.; Aihara, H.; Asner, D. M.; Aulchenko, V.; Aushev, T.; Bakich, A. M.; Bala, A.; Bhuyan, B.; Bozek, A.; Bračko, M.; Browder, T. E.; Chang, P.; Chekelian, V.; Chen, A.; Chen, P.; Cheon, B. G.; Chilikin, K.; Chistov, R.; Cho, I. -S.; Cho, K.; Chobanova, V.; Choi, Y.; Cinabro, D.; Dalseno, J.; Danilov, M.; Doležal, Z.; Drásal, Z.; Dutta, D.; Eidelman, S.; Farhat, H.; Fast, J. E.; Ferber, T.; Gaur, V.; Ganguly, S.; Gillard, R.; Goh, Y. M.; Golob, B.; Haba, J.; Hayashii, H.; Horii, Y.; Hoshi, Y.; Hou, W. -S.; Hsiung, Y. B.; Huschle, M.; Hyun, H. J.; Iijima, T.; Ishikawa, A.; Itoh, R.; Iwasaki, Y.; Julius, T.; Kah, D. H.; Kang, J. H.; Kato, E.; Kawasaki, T.; Kichimi, H.; Kiesling, C.; Kim, D. Y.; Kim, H. J.; Kim, J. B.; Kim, J. H.; Kim, Y. J.; Klucar, J.; Ko, B. R.; Kodyš, P.; Korpar, S.; Križan, P.; Krokovny, P.; Kronenbitter, B.; Kuhr, T.; Kumita, T.; Kuzmin, A.; Kwon, Y. -J.; Lee, S. -H.; Li, J.; Li, Y.; Libby, J.; Liu, C.; Liu, Y.; Liventsev, D.; Lukin, P.; Miyabayashi, K.; Miyata, H.; Mohanty, G. B.; Moll, A.; Mussa, R.; Nakano, E.; Nakao, M.; Natkaniec, Z.; Nayak, M.; Nedelkovska, E.; Ng, C.; Nisar, N. K.; Nishida, S.; Nitoh, O.; Ogawa, S.; Okuno, S.; Olsen, S. L.; Ostrowicz, W.; Oswald, C.; Park, C. W.; Park, H.; Park, H. K.; Pedlar, T. K.; Pestotnik, R.; Petrič, M.; Piilonen, L. E.; Ritter, M.; Röhrken, M.; Rostomyan, A.; Sahoo, H.; Saito, T.; Sakai, Y.; Sandilya, S.; Santel, D.; Santelj, L.; Sanuki, T.; Sato, Y.; Savinov, V.; Schneider, O.; Schnell, G.; Schwanda, C.; Semmler, D.; Senyo, K.; Seon, O.; Sevior, M. E.; Shapkin, M.; Shen, C. P.; Shibata, T. -A.; Shiu, J. -G.; Sibidanov, A.; Sohn, Y. -S.; Sokolov, A.; Stanič, S.; Starič, M.; Steder, M.; Sumihama, M.; Sumiyoshi, T.; Tanida, K.; Tatishvili, G.; Teramoto, Y.; Uchida, M.; Uehara, S.; Uglov, T.; Unno, Y.; Uno, S.; Urquijo, P.; Vahsen, S. E.; Van Hulse, C.; Vanhoefer, P.; Varner, G.; Varvell, K. E.; Vinokurova, A.; Vorobyev, V.; Wagner, M. N.; Wang, C. H.; Wang, P.; Watanabe, M.; Watanabe, Y.; Williams, K. M.; Won, E.; Yamaoka, J.; Yamashita, Y.; Yashchenko, S.; Zhang, Z. P.; Zhilich, V.; Zhulanov, V.; Zupanc, A.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.011101

Title: Evidence for semileptonic $B^{-} \to p \bar{p} ℓ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{ℓ}$ decays

Journal Article · Thu Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2014 · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.011101· OSTI ID:1594497

Tien, K. -J.; Wang, M. -Z.; Adachi, I.; Aihara, H.; Asner, D. M.; Aulchenko, V.; Aushev, T.; Bakich, A. M.; Bala, A.; Bhuyan, B.; Bozek, A.; Bračko, M.; Browder, T. E.; Chang, P.; Chekelian, V.; Chen, A.; Chen, P.; Cheon, B. G.; Chilikin, K.; Chistov, R. more »

Evidence for the semileptonic baryonic decay $B^{-} \to p \bar{p} ℓ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{ℓ}$ ( $ℓ = e$ , $μ$ ), based on a data sample of 772 million $B \bar{B}$ pairs collected at the $Υ (4 S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy electron-positron collider is collected. A neural-network based hadronic $B$ -meson tagging method is used in this study. The branching fraction of $B^{-} \to p \bar{p} ℓ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{ℓ}$ is measured to be $(5. 8_{- 2.1}^{+ 2.4} (stat) \pm 0.9 (syst)) \times 10^{- 6}$ with a significance of $3.2 σ$ , where lepton universality is assumed. We also estimate the corresponding upper limit: $B (B^{-} \to p \bar{p} ℓ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{ℓ}) < 9.6 \times 10^{- 6}$ at the 90% confidence level. This measurement helps constrain the baryonic transition form factor in $B$ decays.

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Research Organization:: Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Contributing Organization:: Belle Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0009973

OSTI ID:: 1594497

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-99792; PRVDAQ; TRN: US2101242

Journal Information:: Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 89, Issue 1; ISSN 1550-7998

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

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