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Direct CP, lepton flavor, and isospin asymmetries in the decays B -> K((*))l(+)l(-)

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BaBar Collaboration (Including:

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., Prudent, X., Tisserand, V., Tico, J. Garra, Grauges, E. et al.

). (2009) Direct CP, lepton flavor, and isospin asymmetries in the decays B -> K((*))l(+)l(-). Physical Review Letters, Vol.102 (No.9). article no. 091803. ISSN 0031-9007

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.091803

Abstract

We measure branching fractions and integrated rate asymmetries for the rare decays B -> K((*))l(+)l(-), where l(+)l(-) is either e(+)e(-) or mu(+)mu(-), using a sample of 384x10(6) BB events collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e(+)e(-) collider. We find no evidence for direct CP or lepton-flavor asymmetries. However, for dilepton masses below the J/psi resonance, we find evidence for unexpectedly large isospin asymmetries in both B -> Kl(+)l(-) and B -> K(*)l(+)l(-) which differ, respectively, by 3.2 sigma and 2.7 sigma, including systematic uncertainties, from the standard model expectations.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Subjects:

Q Science > QC Physics

Divisions:

Faculty of Science > Physics

Journal or Publication Title:

Physical Review Letters

Publisher:

American Physical Society

ISSN:

0031-9007