Phys. Rev. D 65, 092005 (2002) [11 pages]

Study of three-body charmless B decays

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A. Garmash et al. (Belle Collaboration)
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Received 27 December 2001; published 26 April 2002

We report on a study of three-body charmless decays B+K+h+h- based on a 29.1 fb-1 data sample collected with the Belle detector. With no assumptions on the intermediate mechanisms, the following three-body branching fractions have been measured for the first time: B(B+K+π-π+)=(55.6±5.8±7.7)×10-6 and B(B+K+K-K+)=(35.3±3.7±4.5)×10-6. We present the first observation of the decay B+f0(980)K+ with a branching fraction product of B(B+f0(980)K+B(f0(980)→π+π-)=(9.6-2.3-1.5-0.8+2.5+1.5+3.4)×10-6. This is the first reported example of a B meson decay to a scalar pseudoscalar final state. We also report the first observation of B+K*(892)0π+ decay with a branching fraction of B(B+K*(892)0π+)=(19.4-3.9-2.1-6.8+4.2+2.1+3.5)×10-6.


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URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.65.092005
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.65.092005
PACS: 13.20.He, 13.25.Hw, 13.30.Eg, 14.40.Nd

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