Two-body B meson decays to eta and eta ': Observation of B ->eta K

Richichi, SJ Severini, H Skubic, P Undrus, A Chen, S Fast, J Hinson, JW Lee, J Menon, N Miller, DH Shibata, EI Shipsey, IPJ Pavlunin, V Cronin-Hennessy, D Kwon, Y Lyon, AL Thorndike, EH Jessop, CP Marsiske, H Perl, ML Savinov, V Ugolini, D Zhou, X Coan, TE Fadeyev, V Maravin, Y Narsky, I Stroynowski, R Ye, J Wlodek, T Artuso, M Ayad, R Boulahouache, C Bukin, K Dambasuren, E Karamnov, S Kopp, S Majumder, G Moneti, GC Mountain, R Schuh, S Skwarnicki, T Stone, S Viehhauser, G Wang, JC Wolf, A Wu, J Csorna, SE Danko, I McLean, KW Marka, S Xu, Z Godang, R Kinoshita, K Lai, IC Schrenk, S Bonvicini, G Cinabro, D Perera, LP Zhou, GJ Eigen, G Lipeles, E Schmidtler, M Shapiro, A Sun, WM Weinstein, AJ Wurthwein, F Jaffe, DE Masek, G Paar, HP Potter, EM Prell, S Sharma, V Asner, DM Eppich, A Gronberg, J Hill, TS Lange, DJ Morrison, RJ Nelson, HN Briere, RA Behrens, BH Ford, WT Gritsan, A Krieg, H Roy, J Smith, JG Alexander, JP Baker, R Bebek, C Berger, BE Berkelman, K Blanc, F Boisvert, V Cassel, DG Dickson, M Drell, PS Ecklund, KM Ehrlich, R Foland, AD Gaidarev, P Gibbons, L Gittelman, B Gray, SW Hartill, DL Heltsley, BK Hopman, PI Jones, CD Kreinick, DL Lohner, M Magerkurth, A Meyer, TO Mistry, NB Ng, CR Nordberg, E Patterson, JR Peterson, D Riley, D Thayer, JG Thies, PG Valant-Spaight, B Warburton, A Avery, P Prescott, C Rubiera, AI Yelton, J Zheng, J Brandenburg, G Ershov, A Gao, YS Kim, DYJ Wilson, R Browder, TE Li, Y Rodriguez, JL Yamamoto, H Bergfeld, T Eisenstein, BI Ernst, J Gladding, GE Gollin, GD Hans, RM Johnson, E Karliner, I Marsh, MA Palmer, M Plager, C Sedlack, C Selen, M Thaler, JJ Williams, J Edwards, KW Janicek, R Patel, PM Sadoff, AJ Ammar, R Bean, A Besson, D Davis, R Kravchenko, I Kwak, N Zhao, X Anderson, S Frolov, VV Kubota, Y Lee, SJ Mahapatra, R O'Neill, JJ Poling, R Riehle, T Smith, A Urheim, J Ahmed, S Alam, MS Athar, SB Jian, L Ling, L Mahmood, AH Saleem, M Timm, S Wappler, F Anastassov, A Duboscq, JE Gan, KK Gwon, C Hart, T Honscheid, K Hufnagel, D Kagan, H Kass, R Lorenc, J Pedlar, TK Schwarthoff, H von Toerne, E Zoeller, MM

Sj. Richichi et al., Two-body B meson decays to eta and eta ': Observation of B ->eta K, PHYS REV L, 85(3), 2000, pp. 520-524

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In a sample of 19 x 10(6) produced B mesons, we have observed the decays B --> eta K* and improved our previous measurements of B --> eta'K. The branc hing fractions we measure for these decay modes are B(B+ --> eta K*(+)) = ( 26.4(-8.2)(+9.6) +/- 3.3) X 10(-6), B(B-0 --> eta K*(0)) = (13.8(-4.6)(+5.5 ) +/- 1.6) X 10(-6) B(B+ --> eta'K+) = (80(-9)(+10) +/- 7) X 10(-6), and B( B-0 --> eta'K-0) = (89(-16)(+18) +/- 9) X 10(-6). We have searched with com parable sensitivity for related decays and report upper limits for these br anching fractions.