Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Limit on the B0 to rho0rho0 Branching Fraction and Implications for the CKM Angle alpha

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/839717· OSTI ID:839717
The authors search for the decay B{sup 0} {yields} {rho}{sup 0}{rho}{sup 0} in a data sample of about 227 million {Upsilon}(4S) {yields} B{bar B} decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e{sup +}e{sup -} collider at SLAC. They find no significant signal and set an upper limit of 1.1 x 10{sup -6} at 90% CL on the branching fraction. As a result, the uncertainty due to penguin contributions on the CKM unitarity angle {alpha} measured in B {yields} {rho}{rho} decays is 11{sup o} at 68% CL.
Research Organization:
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA
Sponsoring Organization:
SC
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
839717
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-10909
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Constraints on the CKM Angle alpha in the B to rho rho Decays
Technical Report · Tue Nov 02 23:00:00 EST 2004 · OSTI ID:839589

Evidence for B- to rho0rho0 Decay and Implications for the CKM Angle alpha
Journal Article · Tue Jan 02 23:00:00 EST 2007 · Physical Review Letters · OSTI ID:896934

Measurement of the Branching Fraction, Polarization, and CP Asymmetries in B0->rho0rho0 Decay, and Implications for the CKM Angle alpha
Journal Article · Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2008 · Physical Review Letters · OSTI ID:937194