Observation of New Charmless Decays of Bottom Hadrons


Autoria(s): Aaltonen, T.; Mehtälä, Petteri; Orava, Risto; Mäki, Tuula; Saarikko, Heimo; Österberg, Kenneth; CDF Collaboration
Contribuinte(s)

University of Helsinki, Department of Physics

University of Helsinki, Department of Physics

University of Helsinki, Department of Physics

University of Helsinki, Helsinki Institute of Physics

University of Helsinki, Department of Physics

University of Helsinki, Department of Physics

Data(s)

2009

Resumo

We search for new charmless decays of neutral b-hadrons to pairs of charged hadrons with the upgraded Collider Detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. Using a data sample corresponding to 1 fb-1 of integrated luminosity, we report the first observation of the B0s->K-pi+ decay, with a significance of 8.2 sigma, and measure BR(B0s->K-pi+)= (5.0+-0.7(stat)+-0.8(syst))*10^{-6}. We also report the first observation of charmless b-baryon decays in the channels Lambda_b -> p pi and Lambda_b -> pK with significances of 6.0 sigma and 11.5 sigma respectively, and we measure BR(Lambda_b->p pi-) = (3.5+-0.6(stat)+-0.9(syst))*10^{-6} and BR(Lambda_b->p K-) = (5.6+-0.8(stat)+-1.5(syst))*10^{-6}. No evidence is found for the decays B0->K+K- and B0s -> pi+pi-, and we set an improved upper limit BR(B0s -> pi+pi-) K+pi-)$ as a reference.

Formato

8

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10138/24481

0031-9007

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

American Institute of Physics

Relação

Physical Review Letters

Fonte

Aaltonen , T , Mehtälä , P , Orava , R , Mäki , T , Saarikko , H , Österberg , K & CDF Collaboration 2009 , ' Observation of New Charmless Decays of Bottom Hadrons ' Physical Review Letters , vol 103 , no. 3 , pp. 031801 . , 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.031801

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Tipo

A1 Refereed journal article

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