Searches for B Meson Decays to Phiphi, Phirho, Phif0(980), and f0(980)f0(980) Final States

Journal Article · Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2008 · Physical Review Letters

OSTI ID:935690

Aubert, Bernard; Bona, M; Karyotakis, Y; Lees, J P; Poireau, V; Prencipe, E; Prudent, X; Tisserand, V; Garra Tico, J; Grauges, E; Lopez, L; Palano, Antimo; Pappagallo, M; Eigen, G; Stugu, Bjarne; Sun, L; Abrams, G S; Battaglia, M; Brown, D N; Cahn, Robert N ; Jacobsen, R G

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 384 x 10{sup 6} B{bar B} 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: {Beta}(B{sup 0} {yields} {phi}{phi}) < 2.0 x 10{sup -7}, {Beta}(B{sup +} {yields} {phi}{rho}{sup +}) < 30 x 10{sup -7}, {Beta}(B{sup 0} {yields} {phi}{rho}{sup 0}) < 3.3 x 10{sup -7}, {Beta}[B{sup 0} {yields} {phi}f{sub 0}(980)] x {Beta}[f{sub 0}(980) {yields} {pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -}] < 3.8 x 10{sup -7}, and {Beta}[B{sup 0} {yields} f{sub 0}(980)f{sub 0}(980)] x {Beta}[f{sub 0}(980) {yields} {pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -}] x {Beta}[f{sub 0}(980) {yields} K{sup +}K{sup -}] < 2.3 x 10{sup -7}.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 935690
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-13317; PRLTAO; arXiv:0807.3935; TRN: US0804632
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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