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Title: Search for the decay mode B 0 p p p ¯ p ¯

Journal Article · · Physical Review D
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A search is presented for the four-body decay B0 → pp¯p¯p in a sample of 471 million B¯B pairs collected with the BABAR detector, operated at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e collider. The center-of-mass energy is 10.58 GeV. From a fit to the distribution of the energy-substituted mass mES, the branching fraction B(B0 → pp¯p¯p)=(1.1 ± 0.5 ± 0.2) × 10–7 is extracted, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. The significance of the signal, including the systematic uncertainty, is 2.9 standard deviations. The upper limit on the branching fraction is determined to be 2.0 × 10–7 at 90% confidence level.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
BaBar Collaboration; BaBar Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1478549
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1490159; OSTI ID: 1550820; OSTI ID: 1695711
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Vol. 98, Issue 7; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 5 works
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