A search for nonresonant B+→h+h-h+ decays

Bergfeld, T. et al. (1996) A search for nonresonant B+→h+h-h+ decays. Physical Review Letters, 77(22), pp. 4503-4507. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.4503)

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Abstract

We use data collected by the CLEO II detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) to search for B<sup>+</sup>→h<sup>+</sup>h<sup>-</sup>h<sup>+</sup> (nonresonant) decays, where h± can be either π±,K±, or p(p̅). We see no evidence for signals and set upper limits on the branching fractions in the range (2.8–8.9)×10<sup>-5</sup>. If observed, these decays may display CP violating asymmetries.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Britton, Professor David
Authors: Bergfeld, T., Eisenstein, B., Ernst, J., Gladding, G., Gollin, G., Johnson, E., Karliner, I., Palmer, M., Selen, M., Thaler, J., Edwards, K., Bellerive, A., Britton, D., Janicek, R., MacFarlane, D., McLean, K., Patel, P., Sadoff, A., Ammar, R., Baringer, P., Bean, A., Besson, D., Coppage, D., Darling, C., Davis, R., Hancock, N., Kotov, S., Kravchenko, I., Kwak, N., Anderson, S., Kubota, Y., Lattery, M., O'Neill, J., Patton, S., Poling, R., Riehle, T., Smith, A., Savinov, V., Alam, M., Athar, S., Ling, Z., Mahmood, A., Severini, H., Timm, S., Wappler, F., Anastassov, A., Blinov, S., Duboscq, J., Fulton, R., Fujino, D., Gan, K., Hart, T., Honscheid, K., Kagan, H., Kass, R., Lee, J., Sung, M., Undrus, A., Wanke, R., Wolf, A., Zoeller, M., Nemati, B., Richichi, S., Ross, W., Skubic, P., Wood, M., Bishai, M., Fast, J., Gerndt, E., Hinson, J., Miller, D., Shibata, E., Shipsey, I., Yurko, M., Gibbons, L., Johnson, S., Kwon, Y., Roberts, S., Thorndike, E., Jessop, C., Lingel, K., Marsiske, H., Perl, M., Schaffner, S., Ugolini, D., Wang, R., Zhou, X., Coan, T., Fadeyev, V., Korolkov, I., Maravin, Y., Narsky, I., Shelkov, V., Stroynowski, R., Staeck, J., Volobouev, I., Ye, J., Artuso, M., Efimov, A., Gao, M., Goldberg, M., Greene, R., Frasconi, F., He, D., Kopp, S., Moneti, G., Mountain, R., Mukhin, Y., Schuh, S., Skwarnicki, T., Stone, S., Xing, X., Bartelt, J., Csorna, S., Jain, V., Marka, S., Freyberger, A., Godang, R., Gibaut, D., Kinoshita, K., Lai, I., Pomianowski, P., Schrenk, S., Bonvicini, G., Cinabro, D., Perera, L., Barish, B., Chadha, M., Chan, S., Eigen, G., Miller, J., O'Grady, C., Schmidtler, M., Urheim, J., Weinstein, A., Würthwein, F., Asner, D., Bliss, D., Brower, W., Masek, G., Paar, H., Gronberg, J., Korte, C., Lange, D., Kutschke, R., Menary, S., Morrison, R., Nakanishi, S., Nelson, H., Nelson, T., Qiao, C., Richman, J., Roberts, D., Ryd, A., Tajima, H., Witherell, M., Balest, R., Behrens, B., Cho, K., Ford, W., Park, H., Rankin, P., Roy, J., Smith, J., Alexander, J., Bebek, C., Berger, B., Berkelman, K., Bloom, K., Cassel, D., Cho, H., Coffman, D., Crowcroft, D., Dickson, M., Drell, P., Ehrlich, R., Elia, R., Foland, A., Gaidarev, P., Gittelman, B., Gray, S., Hartill, D., Heltsley, B., Hopman, P., Jones, S., Kandaswamy, J., Katayama, N., Kim, P., Kreinick, D., Lee, T., Liu, Y., Ludwig, G., Masui, J., Mevissen, J., Mistry, N., Ng, C., Nordberg, E., Ogg, M., Patterson, J., Peterson, D., Riley, D., Soffer, A., Ward, C., Avery, P., Athanas, M., Jones, C., Lohner, M., Prescott, C., Yang, S., Yelton, J., Zheng, J., Brandenburg, G., Briere, R., Kim, D., Liu, T., Saulnier, M., Wilson, R., Yamamoto, H., Browder, T., Li, F., Li, Y., and Rodriguez, J.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Journal Name:Physical Review Letters
Publisher:American Physical Society
ISSN:0031-9007

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