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Evidence for B{sup +}{yields}K*{sup 0}K*{sup +}

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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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 measurements of the branching fraction and fraction of longitudinal polarization for the decay B{sup +}{yields}K*{sup 0}K*{sup +} with a sample of (467{+-}5)x10{sup 6} BB pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e{sup +}e{sup -} collider at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. We obtain the branching fraction B(B{sup +}{yields}K*{sup 0}K*{sup +})=(1.2{+-}0.5{+-}0.1)x10{sup -6} with a significance of 3.7 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties. We measure the fraction of longitudinal polarization f{sub L}=0.75{sub -0.26}{sup +0.16}{+-}0.03. The first error quoted is statistical and the second is systematic.
OSTI ID:
21260047
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 79; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English