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Partial waves of baryon-antibaryon in three-body B meson decay
The conspicuous threshold enhancement has been observed in the
baryon-antibaryon subchannels of many three-body B decay modes. By examining
the partial waves of baryon-antibaryon, we first show for B- -->pp-bar K- that
the pK- angular correlation rules out dominance of a single pp-bar partial wave
for the enhancement, for instance, the resonance hypothesis or the strong
final-state interaction in a single channel. The measured pK- angular
correlation turns out to be opposite to the naive expectation of the
short-distance picture. We study the origin of this reversed angular
correlation in the context of the pp-bar partial waves and argue that NN-bar
bound states may be the cause of this sign reversal. Dependence of the angular
correlation on the pp-bar invariant mass is very important to probe the
underlying problem from the experimental side.Comment: 16 pages, 9 figures, the version for journal publicatio
Measurement of the Pion Form Factor in the Energy Range 1.04-1.38 GeV with the CMD-2 Detector
The cross section for the process is measured in the
c.m. energy range 1.04-1.38 GeV from 995 000 selected collinear events
including 860000 events, 82000 events, and 33000
events. The systematic and statistical errors of measuring the
pion form factor are equal to 1.2-4.2 and 5-13%, respectively.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Study of B -> \rho \pi decays at Belle
This paper describes a study of B meson decays to the pseudoscalar-vector
final state \rho\pi using 31.9\times 10^6 B\bar{B} events collected with the
Belle detector at KEKB. The branching fractions B(B^+ \to \rho^0\pi^+) =
(8.0^{+2.3+0.7}_{-2.0-0.7}) \times 10^{-6} and B(B^0 -> \rho^{+-} \pi^{-+}) =
(20.8^{+6.0+2.8}_{-6.3-3.1}) \times 10^{-6} are obtained. In addition, a 90%
confidence level upper limit of B(B^0 \to \rho^0\pi^0) < 5.3 \times 10^{-6}is
reported.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, to be submitted to Phys. Lett.
Search for the h_c meson in B^+- ->h_c K^+-
We report a search for the meson via the decay chain , \etac \gamma with and
. No significant signals are observed. We obtain upper limits on the
branching fractions for in bins of the
invariant mass. The results are based on an analysis of 253
fb of data collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB
collider.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Study of the Baryon-Antibaryon Low-Mass Enhancements in Charmless Three-body Baryonic B Decays
The angular distributions of the baryon-antibaryon low-mass enhancements seen
in the charmless three-body baryonic B decays B+ -> p pbar K+, B0 -> p pbar Ks,
and B0 -> p Lambdabar pi- are reported. A quark fragmentation interpretation is
supported, while the gluonic resonance picture is disfavored. Searches for the
Theta+ and Theta++ pentaquarks in the relevant decay modes and possible
glueball states G with 2.2 GeV/c2 < M-ppbar < 2.4 GeV/c2 in the ppbar systems
give null results. We set upper limits on the products of branching fractions,
B(B0 -> Theta+ p)\times B(Theta+ -> p Ks) Theta++
pbar) \times B(Theta++ -> p K+) G K+) \times
B(G -> p pbar) < 4.1 \times 10^{-7} at the 90% confidence level. The analysis
is based on a 140 fb^{-1} data sample recorded on the Upsilon(4S) resonance
with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider.Comment: 14 pages, 13 figure files, update of hep-ex/0409010 for journal
submisssio
Low-Mass Baryon-Antibaryon Enhancements in B Decays
The nature of low-mass baryon-antibaryon enhancements seen in B decays is
explored. Three possibilities include (i) states near threshold as found in a
model by Nambu and Jona-Lasinio, (ii) isoscalar states with coupled to a pair of gluons, and (iii) low-mass enhancements favored by the
fragmentation process. Ways of distinguishing these mechanisms using angular
distributions and flavor symmetry are proposed.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX, no figures, to be submitted to Phys. Rev. D. One
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Evidence of the Purely Leptonic Decay B- --> tau- nu_tau-bar
We present the first evidence of the decay B- --> tau- nu_tau-bar using 414
fb^-1 of data collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at
the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. Events are tagged by fully
reconstructing one of the B mesons in hadronic modes. We detect the signal with
a significance of 3.5 standard deviations including systematics, and measure
the branching fraction to be Br(B- --> tau- nu_tau-bar) = (1.79
+0.56-0.49(stat) +0.46-0.51(syst))*10^-4. This implies that f_B = 0.229
+0.036-0.031(stat) +0.034-0.037(syst) GeV and is the first direct measurement
of this quantity.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Physical Review Letter
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