Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2007-06-14
ECONF C070512:001,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
14 pages, 33 postscript figures, proceedings of the 5th Flavor Physics And CP Violation Conference (FPCP 2007) C07/05/12
Scientific paper
With a sample of about 384 million BBbar pairs recorded with the BABAR detector, we search for the flavor-changing charged current transition B+ -> \tau\nu and perform an amplitude analysis of the effective flavor-changing neutral current transition B+ -> \phi(1020)K*(892)+. We also extend our search for other K* final states in the decay B0 -> phi(1020)K*0 with a large K*0 -> K+pi- invariant mass. Two samples of events with one reconstructed hadronic B decay or one reconstructed semileptonic B decay are selected, and in the recoil a search for B+ -> \tau\nu is performed. We find a 2.6 sigma (3.2 sigma not including expected background uncertainty) excess in data which can be converted to a preliminary branching fraction central value of BR(B+ -> \tau\nu ) = (1.20 +0.40-0.38 +0.29-0.30 +-0.22) 10^-4. With the decay B+- -> \phi(1020)K*(892)+-, twelve parameters are measured, where our measurements of f_L=0.49+-0.05+-0.03, f_perp=0.21+-0.05+-0.02, and the strong phases point to the presence of a substantial helicity-plus amplitude from a presently unknown source.
for the BABAR Collaboration
Gritsan Andrei V.
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