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Search for neutral charmless B decays at LEP

Abstract

A search for rare charmless decays of Bd0 and Bs0 mesons has been performed in the exclusive channels Bd(s)0 →ηη, Bd(s)0 →ηπ0 and Bd(s)0 →π0π0. The data sample consisted of three million hadronic Z decays collected by the L3 experiment at LEP from 1991 through 1994. No candidate event has been observed and the following upper limits at 90% confidence level on the branching ratios have been set: Br(B()d→ηη) <4.1 x 10−4, Br(B()s→ηη) < 1.5 x 10−3, Br(B()d→ηφ()) < 2.5 x 10−4, Br(B()s→ηphi;()) < 1.0 x 10−3, Br(B()d→phi;()phi;()) < 6.0 x 10−5, Br(B()s→phi;()phi;()) < 2.1 x 10−4.These are the first experimental limits on Bd0→ηη and on the Bs0 neutral charmless modes.

Authors

Collaboration L; Acciarri M; Adam A; Adriani O; Aguilar-Benitez M; Ahlen S; Alpat B; Alcaraz J; Allaby J; Aloisio A

Journal

Physics Letters B, Vol. 363, No. 1-2, pp. 127–136

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

November 16, 1995

DOI

10.1016/0370-2693(95)01042-o

ISSN

0370-2693
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