Observation of New Charmless Decays of Bottom Hadrons
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Xie, Si; Knuteson, Bruce O.; Henderson, C.; Hahn, Kristian Allan; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Choudalakis, Georgios; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Makhoul, Khaldoun; Goncharov, Maxim; Bauer, Gerry P; ... Show more Show less
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We search for new charmless decays of neutral b hadrons to pairs of charged hadrons, using 1 fb[superscript -1] of data collected by the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. We report the first observation of the B[subscript s][superscript 0]→K[superscript -]π[superscript +] decay and measure B[subscript s][superscript 0]→K[superscript -]π[superscript +]=(5.0±0.7(stat)±0.8(syst))×10[superscript -6]. We also report the first observation of charmless b-baryon decays, and measure B(Λ[subscript b][superscript 0]→pπ[superscript -])=(3.5±0.6(stat)±0.9(syst))×10[superscript -6] and B(Λb0→pK-)=(5.6±0.8(stat)±1.5(syst))×10[superscript -6]. No evidence is found for other modes, and we set the limit B(B[subscript s][superscript 0]→π[superscript +]π[superscript -])<1.2×10[superscript -6] at 90% C.L.
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2009-07Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
Citation
CDF Collaboration et al. “Observation of New Charmless Decays of Bottom Hadrons.” Physical Review Letters 103.3 (2009): 031801. © 2009 The American Physical Society
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0031-9007