Measurements of branching fractions, polarizations, and direct CP-violation asymmetries in B{sup +}{yields}{rho}{sup 0}K{sup *+} and B{sup +}{yields}f{sub 0}(980)K{sup *+} decays

Journal Article · Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2011 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.83.051101· OSTI ID:21578150

Amo Sanchez, P del; Lees, J P; Poireau, V; Prencipe, E; Tisserand, V ^[1]; Garra Tico, J; Grauges, E ^[2]; Martinelli, M; Palano, A; Pappagallo, M ^[3]; Milanes, D A ^[3]; Eigen, G; Stugu, B; Sun, L ^[4]; Brown, D N; Kerth, L T; Kolomensky, Yu G; Lynch, G; Osipenkov, I L ^[5]; Koch, H ^[6]

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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)
6. Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Institut fuer Experimentalphysik 1, D-44780 Bochum (Germany)

We present measurements of the branching fractions, longitudinal polarization, and direct CP-violation asymmetries for the decays B{sup +}{yields}{rho}{sup 0}K*{sup +} and B{sup +}{yields}f{sub 0}(980)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 observe B{sup +}{yields}{rho}{sup 0}K{sup *+} with a significance of 5.3{sigma} and measure the branching fraction B(B{sup +}{yields}{rho}{sup 0}K{sup *+})=(4.6{+-}1.0{+-}0.4)x10{sup -6}, the longitudinal polarization f{sub L}=0.78{+-}0.12{+-}0.03, and the CP-violation asymmetry A{sub CP}=0.31{+-}0.13{+-}0.03. We observe B{sup +}{yields}f{sub 0}(980)K*{sup +} and measure the branching fraction B(B{sup +}{yields}f{sub 0}(980)K*{sup +})xB(f{sub 0}(980){yields}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -})=(4.2{+-}0.6{+-}0.3)x10{sup -6} and the CP-violation asymmetry A{sub CP}=-0.15{+-}0.12{+-}0.03. The first uncertainty quoted is statistical and the second is systematic.

• OSTI ID: 21578150
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 83, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.051101; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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