Measurements of branching fraction, polarization, and charge asymmetry of B(+/-)-->rho(+/-)rho(0) and a search for B(+/-)-->rho(+/-)f(0)(980)

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doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.261801

Measurements of branching fraction, polarization, and charge asymmetry of B(+/-)-->rho(+/-)rho(0) and a search for B(+/-)-->rho(+/-)f(0)(980)

Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Dec 31;97(26):261801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.261801. Epub 2006 Dec 27.

Authors

B Aubert¹, M Bona, D Boutigny, F Couderc, Y Karyotakis, J P Lees, V Poireau, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, E Grauges, A Palano, J C Chen, N D Qi, G Rong, P Wang, Y S Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, G S Abrams, M Battaglia, D N Brown, J Button-Shafer, R N Cahn, E Charles, M S Gill, Y Groysman, R G Jacobsen, J A Kadyk, L T Kerth, Yu G Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, G Lynch, L M Mir, T J Orimoto, M Pripstein, N A Roe, M T Ronan, W A Wenzel, P Del Amo Sanchez, M Barrett, K E Ford, T J Harrison, A J Hart, C M Hawkes, A T Watson, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, K Peters, T Schroeder, M Steinke, J T Boyd, J P Burke, W N Cottingham, D Walker, D J Asgeirsson, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, B G Fulsom, C Hearty, N S Knecht, T S Mattison, J A McKenna, A Khan, P Kyberd, M Saleem, D J Sherwood, L Teodorescu, V E Blinov, A D Bukin, V P Druzhinin, V B Golubev, A P Onuchin, S I Serednyakov, Yu I Skovpen, E P Solodov, K Yu Todyshev, M Bondioli, M Bruinsma, M Chao, S Curry, I Eschrich, D Kirkby, A J Lankford, P Lund, M Mandelkern, R K Mommsen, W Roethel, D P Stoker, S Abachi, C Buchanan, S D Foulkes, J W Gary, O Long, B C Shen, K Wang, L Zhang, H K Hadavand, E J Hill, H P Paar, S Rahatlou, V Sharma, J W Berryhill, C Campagnari, A Cunha, B Dahmes, T M Hong, D Kovalskyi, J D Richman, T W Beck, A M Eisner, C J Flacco, C A Heusch, J Kroseberg, W S Lockman, G Nesom, T Schalk, B A Schumm, A Seiden, P Spradlin, D C Williams, M G Wilson, J Albert, E Chen, A Dvoretskii, F Fang, D G Hitlin, I Narsky, T Piatenko, F C Porter, A Ryd, G Mancinelli, B T Meadows, K Mishra, M D Sokoloff, F Blanc, P C Bloom, S Chen, W T Ford, J F Hirschauer, A Kreisel, M Nagel, U Nauenberg, A Olivas, W O Ruddick, J G Smith, K A Ulmer, S R Wagner, J Zhang, A Chen, E A Eckhart, A Soffer, W H Toki, R J Wilson, F Winklmeier, Q Zeng, D D Altenburg, E Feltresi, A Hauke, H Jasper, J Merkel, A Petzold, B Spaan, T Brandt, V Klose, H M Lacker, W F Mader, R Nogowski, J Schubert, K R Schubert, R Schwierz, J E Sundermann, A Volk, D Bernard, G R Bonneaud, E Latour, Ch Thiebaux, M Verderi, P J Clark, W Gradl, F Muheim, S Playfer, A I Robertson, Y Xie, M Andreotti, D Bettoni, C Bozzi, R Calabrese, G Cibinetto, E Luppi, M Negrini, A Petrella, L Piemontese, E Prencipe, F Anulli, R Baldini-Ferroli, A Calcaterra, R de Sangro, G Finocchiaro, S Pacetti, P Patteri, I M Peruzzi, M Piccolo, M Rama, A Zallo, A Buzzo, R Contri, M Lo Vetere, M M Macri, M R Monge, S Passaggio, C Patrignani, E Robutti, A Santroni, S Tosi, G Brandenburg, K S Chaisanguanthum, M Morii, J Wu, R S Dubitzky, J Marks, S Schenk, U Uwer, D J Bard, W Bhimji, D A Bowerman, P D Dauncey, U Egede, R L Flack, J A Nash, M B Nikolich, W Panduro Vazquez, P K Behera, X Chai, M J Charles, U Mallik, N T Meyer, V Ziegler, J Cochran, H B Crawley, L Dong, V Eyges, W T Meyer, S Prell, E I Rosenberg, A E Rubin, A V Gritsan, A G Denig, M Fritsch, G Schott, N Arnaud, M Davier, G Grosdidier, A Höcker, F Le Diberder, V Lepeltier, A M Lutz, A Oyanguren, S Pruvot, S Rodier, P Roudeau, M H Schune, A Stocchi, W F Wang, G Wormser, C H Cheng, D J Lange, D M Wright, C A Chavez, I J Forster, J R Fry, E Gabathuler, R Gamet, K A George, D E Hutchcroft, D J Payne, K C Schofield, C Touramanis, A J Bevan, F Di Lodovico, W Menges, R Sacco, G Cowan, H U Flaecher, D A Hopkins, P S Jackson, T R McMahon, S Ricciardi, F Salvatore, A C Wren, D N Brown, C L Davis, J Allison, N R Barlow, R J Barlow, Y M Chia, C L Edgar, G D Lafferty, M T Naisbit, J C Williams, J I Yi, C Chen, W D Hulsbergen, A Jawahery, C K Lae, D A Roberts, G Simi, G Blaylock, C Dallapiccola, S S Hertzbach, X Li, T B Moore, S Saremi, H Staengle, R Cowan, G Sciolla, S J Sekula, M Spitznagel, F Taylor, R K Yamamoto, H Kim, S E McLachlin, P M Patel, S H Robertson, A Lazzaro, V Lombardo, F Palombo, J M Bauer, L Cremaldi, V Eschenburg, R Godang, R Kroeger, D A Sanders, D J Summers, H W Zhao, S Brunet, D Côté, M Simard, P Taras, F B Viaud, H Nicholson, N Cavallo, G De Nardo, F Fabozzi, C Gatto, L Lista, D Monorchio, P Paolucci, D Piccolo, C Sciacca, M A Baak, G Raven, H L Snoek, C P Jessop, J M Losecco, T Allmendinger, G Benelli, L A Corwin, K K Gan, K Honscheid, D Hufnagel, P D Jackson, H Kagan, R Kass, A M Rahimi, J J Regensburger, R Ter-Antonyan, Q K Wong, N L Blount, J Brau, R Frey, O Igonkina, J A Kolb, M Lu, R Rahmat, N B Sinev, D Strom, J Strube, E Torrence, A Gaz, M Margoni, M Morandin, A Pompili, M Posocco, M Rotondo, F Simonetto, R Stroili, C Voci, M Benayoun, H Briand, J Chauveau, P David, L Del Buono, Ch de la Vaissière, O Hamon, B L Hartfiel, Ph Leruste, J Malclès, J Ocariz, L Roos, G Therin, L Gladney, M Biasini, R Covarelli, C Angelini, G Batignani, S Bettarini, F Bucci, G Calderini, M Carpinelli, R Cenci, F Forti, M A Giorgi, A Lusiani, G Marchiori, M A Mazur, M Morganti, N Neri, E Paoloni, G Rizzo, J J Walsh, M Haire, D Judd, D E Wagoner, J Biesiada, N Danielson, P Elmer, Y P Lau, C Lu, J Olsen, A J S Smith, A V Telnov, F Bellini, G Cavoto, A D'Orazio, D Del Re, E Di Marco, R Faccini, F Ferrarotto, F Ferroni, M Gaspero, L Li Gioi, M A Mazzoni, S Morganti, G Piredda, F Polci, F Safai Tehrani, C Voena, M Ebert, H Schröder, R Waldi, T Adye, N De Groot, B Franek, E O Olaiya, F F Wilson, R Aleksan, S Emery, A Gaidot, S F Ganzhur, G Hamel de Monchenault, W Kozanecki, M Legendre, G Vasseur, Ch Yèche, M Zito, X R Chen, H Liu, W Park, M V Purohit, J R Wilson, M T Allen, D Aston, R Bartoldus, P Bechtle, N Berger, R Claus, J P Coleman, M R Convery, M Cristinziani, J C Dingfelder, J Dorfan, G P Dubois-Felsmann, D Dujmic, W Dunwoodie, R C Field, T Glanzman, S J Gowdy, M T Graham, P Grenier, V Halyo, C Hast, T Hryn'ova, W R Innes, M H Kelsey, P Kim, D W G S Leith, S Li, S Luitz, V Luth, H L Lynch, D B Macfarlane, H Marsiske, R Messner, D R Muller, C P O'grady, V E Ozcan, A Perazzo, M Perl, T Pulliam, B N Ratcliff, A Roodman, A A Salnikov, R H Schindler, J Schwiening, A Snyder, J Stelzer, D Su, M K Sullivan, K Suzuki, S K Swain, J M Thompson, J Va'vra, N van Bakel, M Weaver, A J R Weinstein, W J Wisniewski, M Wittgen, D H Wright, A K Yarritu, K Yi, C C Young, P R Burchat, A J Edwards, S A Majewski, B A Petersen, C Roat, L Wilden, S Ahmed, M S Alam, R Bula, J A Ernst, V Jain, B Pan, M A Saeed, F R Wappler, S B Zain, W Bugg, M Krishnamurthy, S M Spanier, R Eckmann, J L Ritchie, A Satpathy, C J Schilling, R F Schwitters, J M Izen, X C Lou, S Ye, F Bianchi, F Gallo, D Gamba, M Bomben, L Bosisio, C Cartaro, F Cossutti, G Della Ricca, S Dittongo, L Lanceri, L Vitale, V Azzolini, N Lopez-March, F Martinez-Vidal, Sw Banerjee, B Bhuyan, C M Brown, D Fortin, K Hamano, R Kowalewski, I M Nugent, J M Roney, R J Sobie, J J Back, P F Harrison, T E Latham, G B Mohanty, M Pappagallo, H R Band, X Chen, B Cheng, S Dasu, M Datta, K T Flood, J J Hollar, P E Kutter, B Mellado, A Mihalyi, Y Pan, M Pierini, R Prepost, S L Wu, Z Yu, H Neal; BABAR Collaboration

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, IN2P3/CNRS et Université de Savoie, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux, France.

PMID: 17280416
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.261801

Abstract

We measure the branching fraction (B), polarization (f(L)), and CP asymmetry (A(CP)) of B(+/-)-->rho(+/-)rho(0) decays and search for the decay B(+/-)-->rho(+/-)f(0)(980) based on a data sample of 231.8 x 10(6) Upsilon(4S)-->BB decays collected with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory. In B(+/-)-->rho(+/-)rho(0) decays we measure B=(16.8+/-2.2+/-2.3) x 10(-), f(L)=0.905+/-0.042(-0.027)(+0.023), and A(CP)=-0.12+/-0.13+/-0.10, and find an upper limit on the branching fraction of B(+/-)-->rho(+/-)f(0)(980)(-->pi(+)pi(-)) decays of 1.9 x 10(-6) at 90% confidence level.