Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2010-02-06
Nuovo Cim.B124:987-1001,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
15 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. To be published on Nuovo Cimento B
Scientific paper
10.1393/ncb/i2010-10821-7
We search for new charmless decays of neutral $b$--hadrons to pairs of charged hadrons with the upgraded Collider Detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. Using a data sample corresponding to 1 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity, we report the first observation of the \BsKpi decay, with a significance of $8.2\sigma$, and measure $\BR(\BsKpi) = (5.0 \pm 0.7\stat \pm 0.8\syst)\times 10^{-6}$. We also report the first observation of charmless $b$--baryon decays in the channels \Lbppi and \LbpK with significances of $6.0\sigma$ and $11.5\sigma$ respectively, and we measure $\BR(\Lbppi) = (3.5 \pm 0.6\stat \pm 0.9\syst)\times 10^{-6}$ and $\BR(\LbpK) = (5.6 \pm 0.8\stat \pm 1.5\syst)\times 10^{-6}$. No evidence is found for the decays \BdKK and \Bspipi, and we set an improved upper limit $\BR(\Bspipi) < 1.2\times 10^{-6}$ at the 90% confidence level. All quoted branching fractions are measured using $\BR(\BdKpi)$ as a reference.
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