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Title: Searches for B Meson Decays to {phi}{phi}, {phi}{rho}, {phi}f{sub 0}(980), and f{sub 0}(980)f{sub 0}(980) Final States

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  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. 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 present the results of searches for B decays to charmless final states involving {phi}, f{sub 0}(980), and charged or neutral {rho} mesons. The data sample corresponds to 384x10{sup 6} BB pairs collected with the BABAR detector operating at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e{sup +}e{sup -} 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(B{sup 0}{yields}{phi}{phi})<2.0x10{sup -7}, B(B{sup +}{yields}{phi}{rho}{sup +})<30x10{sup -7}, B(B{sup 0}{yields}{phi}{rho}{sup 0})<3.3x10{sup -7}, B[B{sup 0}{yields}{phi}f{sub 0}(980)]xB[f{sub 0}(980){yields}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -}]<3.8x10{sup -7}, and B[B{sup 0}{yields}f{sub 0}(980)f{sub 0}(980)]xB[f{sub 0}(980){yields}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -}]xB[f{sub 0}(980){yields}K{sup +}K{sup -}]<2.3x10{sup -7}.

OSTI ID:
21179903
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, Issue 20; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.201801; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English