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Atmospheric gamma-ray observation with the BETS detectorfor calibrating atmospheric neutrino flux calculations
We observed atmospheric gamma-rays around 10 GeV at balloon altitudes (15~25 km) and at a mountain (2770 m a.s.l). The observed results were compared with Monte Carlo calculations to find that an interaction model (Lund Fritiof1.6) used in an old neutrino flux calculation was not good enough for describing the observed values. In stead, we found that two other nuclear interaction models, Lund Fritiof7.02 and dpmjet3.03, gave much better agreement with the observations. Our data will serve for examining nuclear interaction models and for deriving a reliable absolute atmospheric neutrino flux in the GeV region.We observed atmospheric gamma-rays around 10 GeV at balloon altitudes (15~25 km) and at a mountain (2770 m a.s.l). The observed results were compared with Monte Carlo calculations to find that an interaction model (Lund Fritiof1.6) used in an old neutrino flux calculation was not good enough for describing the observed values. In stead, we found that two other nuclear interaction models, Lund Fritiof7.02 and dpmjet3.03, gave much better agreement with the observations. Our data will serve for examining nuclear interaction models and for deriving a reliable absolute atmospheric neutrino flux in the GeV region
Observation of B0->pi0pi0
We report the first observation of the decay B0->pi0pi0, using a 253/fb data
sample collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the
KEKB e+e- collider. The measured branching fraction is BF(B0->pi0pi0) = {2.32
+0.4-0.5(stat) +0.2-0.3(syst)} x 10^-6, with a significance of 5.8 standard
deviations including systematic uncertainties. We also make the first
measurement of the direct CP violating asymmetry in this mode.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ICHEP04, Beijing and Physical Review
Letters. v2: a possible pile-up background is checked and a systematic error
for it is include
An Upper Bound on the Decay tau -> mu gamma from Belle
We have performed a search for the lepton-flavor-violating decay tau -> mu
gamma using a data sample of 86.3fb^{-1} accumulated by the Belle detector at
KEK. No evidence for a signal is seen, and we set an upper limit for the
branching fraction of B(tau -> mu gamma) < 3.1 x 10^{-7} at the 90% confidence
level.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figuresm, submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Observation of a narrow charmonium-like state in exclusive B+ -> K+ pi+pi- J/psi decays
We report the observation of a narrow charmonium-like state produced in the
exclusive decay process B+ -> K+ pi+pi- J/psi. This state, which decays into
pi+pi- J/psi, has a mass of 3872.0+-0.6(stat)+-0.5(syst) MeV, a value that is
very near the M_D + M_D* mass threshold. The results are based on an analysis
of 152M B-Bbar events collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance in the Belle
detector at the KEKB collider. The statistical significance of the signal is in
excess of 10 sigma.Comment: 10 pages 4 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letter
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