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Observation of the rare decay B0 -> KS0K±π∓

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Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Ilić, Jelena, Latham, Thomas, Mohanty, G. B. and Puccio, E. M. T. (2010) Observation of the rare decay B0 -> KS0K±π∓. Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology), Vol.82 (No.3). 031101(R) . ISSN 1550-7998

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.031101

Abstract

We report an analysis of charmless hadronic decays of neutral B mesons to the final state (KSK +/-)-K-0 pi(-/+), using a data sample of (465 +/- 5) x 10(6) B (B) over bar events collected with the BABAR detector at the Gamma(4S) resonance. We observe an excess of signal events with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties and measure the branching fraction to be B(B-0 -> (KSK +/-)-K-0 pi(-/+) (3.2 +/- 0.5 +/- 0.3) x 10(-6), where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	B mesons -- Decay
Journal or Publication Title:	Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
Publisher:	American Physical Society
ISSN:	1550-7998
Official Date:	5 August 2010
Volume:	Vol.82
Number:	No.3
Number of Pages:	8
Page Range:	031101(R)
Identification Number:	10.1103/PhysRevD.82.031101
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder:	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, United States. Dept. of Energy, National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), France. Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules, Germany. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare (INFN), Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM) [Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter], Norges forskningsråd [Norwegian Research Council], Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo obrazovanii︠a︡ i nauki [Ministry of Education and Science], Spain. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC), Science and Technology Facilities Council (Great Britain) (STFC), European Union (EU), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/5407