Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3456 - 3460 (1998)

Observation of Exclusive Two-Body B Decays to Kaons and Pions

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R. Godang et al. (CLEO Collaboration)
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Received 17 November 1997

We have studied two-body charmless hadronic decays of B mesons into the final states ππ, Kπ, and KK. Using 3.3×106 BB̅ pairs collected with the CLEO-II detector, we have made the first observation of the decay B0K+π-, the sum of B+→π+π0 and B+K+π0 decays, and see strong evidence for the decay B+K0π+ (an average over charge-conjugate states is always implied). We place upper limits on branching fractions for the remaining decay modes.


©1998 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.3456
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.3456
PACS: 13.25.Hw, 11.30.Er, 14.40.Nd

* Permanent address: University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712.
Permanent address: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551.
Permanent address: BINP, RU-630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.
§ Permanent address: Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea.
** Permanent address: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973.

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