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Phys. Rev. D 78, 052005 (2008) [26 pages]

Dalitz plot analysis of the decay B0(B̅ 0)→K±ππ0

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B. Aubert et al. BABAR Collaboration
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Received 28 November 2007; published 12 September 2008

We report a Dalitz-plot analysis of the charmless hadronic decays of neutral B mesons to K±ππ0. With a sample of (231.8±2.6)×106Υ(4S)→BB̅ decays collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC, we measure the magnitudes and phases of the intermediate resonant and nonresonant amplitudes for B0 and B̅ 0 decays and determine the corresponding CP-averaged branching fractions and charge asymmetries. The inclusive branching fraction and CP-violating charge asymmetry are measured to be B(B0K+π-π0)=(35.7-1.5+2.6±2.2)×10-6 and ACP=-0.030-0.051+0.045±0.055 where the first errors are statistical and the second systematic. We observe the decay B0K*0(892)π0 with the branching fraction B(B0K*0(892)π0)=(3.6-0.8+0.7±0.4)×10-6. This measurement differs from zero by 5.6 standard deviations (including the systematic uncertainties). The selected sample also contains B0D̅ 0π0 decays where D̅ 0K+π-, and we measure B(B0D̅ 0π0)=(2.93±0.17±0.18)×10-4.

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URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.052005
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.052005
PACS:
13.66.Bc, 13.25.−k, 13.25.Hw, 13.25.Gv