Measurement of branching fractions for two-body charmless B decays to charged pions and kaons at BABAR

dc.creatorThe BABAR Collaboration
dc.creatorAubert, B.
dc.date2000-08-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T17:25:47Z
dc.descriptionWe present preliminary results of a search for charmless two-body B decays to charged pions and kaons using data collected by the BABAR detector at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's PEP-II storage ring. In a sample of 8.8 million produced B-anti-B pairs we measure the branching fractions B(B^0 --> pi^+pi^-) = (9.3^{+2.6}_{-2.3}^{+1.2}_{-1.4}) x 10^{-6} and B(B^0 --> K^+π^-) = (12.5^{+3.0}_{-2.6}^{+1.3}_{-1.7}) x 10^{-6}, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. For the decay B^0 --> K^+K^- we find no significant signal and set an upper limit of B(B^0 --> K^+K^-) < 6.6 x 10^{-6} at the 90% confidence level.
dc.description21 pages, 9 postscript figures, contributed paper to ICHEP2000
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0008057
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0008057
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/48041
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Experiment
dc.titleMeasurement of branching fractions for two-body charmless B decays to charged pions and kaons at BABAR
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