Measurements of branching fractions in B→φK and B→φπ and search for direct CP violation in B±→φK±

B. Aubert, R. Barate, D. Boutigny, J. M. Gaillard, A. Hicheur, Y. Karyotakis, J. P. Lees, P. Robbe, V. Tisserand, A. Zghiche, A. Palano, A. Pompili, J. C. Chen, N. D. Qi, G. Rong, P. Wang, Y. S. Zhu, G. Eigen, I. Ofte, B. StuguG. S. Abrams, A. W. Borgland, A. B. Breon, D. N. Brown, J. Button-Shafer, R. N. Cahn, E. Charles, C. T. Day, M. S. Gill, A. V. Gritsan, Y. Groysman, R. G. Jacobsen, R. W. Kadel, J. Kadyk, L. T. Kerth, Yu G. Kolomensky, J. F. Kral, G. Kukartsev, C. LeClerc, M. E. Levi, G. Lynch, L. M. Mir, P. J. Oddone, T. J. Orimoto, M. Pripstein, N. A. Roe, A. Romosan, M. T. Ronan, V. G. Shelkov, A. V. Telnov, W. A. Wenzel, K. Ford, T. J. Harrison, C. M. Hawkes, D. J. Knowles, S. E. Morgan, R. C. Penny, A. T. Watson, N. K. Watson, T. Deppermann, K. Goetzen, H. Koch, B. Lewandowski, M. Pelizaeus, K. Peters, H. Schmuecker, M. Steinke, N. R. Barlow, J. T. Boyd, N. Chevalier, W. N. Cottingham, M. P. Kelly, T. E. Latham, C. Mackay, F. F. Wilson, K. Abe, T. Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C. Hearty, T. S. Mattison, J. A. McKenna, D. Thiessen, P. Kyberd, A. K. McKemey, V. E. Blinov, A. D. Bukin, V. B. Golubev, V. N. Ivanche'nko, E. A. Kravchenko, A. P. Onuchin, S. I. Serednyakov, Yu I. Skovpen, E. P. Solodov, A. N. Yushkov, D. Best, M. Chao, D. Kirkby, A. J. Lankford, M. Mandelkern, S. McMahon

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Abstract

We present measurements of branching fractions in the b→ss̄s penguin-dominated decays B+→φK+ and B 0φK0 in a sample of approximately 89 million BB̄ pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B-meson factory at SLAC. We determine B(B+→φK+) = (10.0-08+09±0.5)×10-6 and B(B 0→φK0) = (8.4-13+15± 0.5)×10-6. Additionally, we measure the CP-violating charge asymmetry ACP(B±→φK±) = 0.04±0.09±0.01, with a 90% confidence-level interval of [-0.10,0.18], and set an upper limit on the CKM- and color-suppressed decay B+→φπ+, B(B+→φπ +)<0.41× 10-6 (at the 90% confidence level).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number011102
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume69
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes

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