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Measurement of branching fraction and direct CP asymmetry in charmless B+ →K+K-π+ decays at Belle

  • (Belle Collaboration)
  • University of Melbourne
  • The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba
  • The University of Tokyo
  • King Abdulaziz University
  • University of Tabuk
  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • University of South Carolina
  • RAS - Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • Novosibirsk State University
  • Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
  • King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
  • The University of Sydney
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali
  • Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
  • Jožef Stefan Institute
  • Wayne State University
  • H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • University of Maribor
  • University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
  • National Taiwan University
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • National Central University
  • Hanyang University
  • RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
  • Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
  • Sungkyunkwan University
  • Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
  • Charles University
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • University of Ljubljana

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Abstract

We report a study of the charmless hadronic decay of the charged B meson to the three-body final state K+K-π+. The results are based on a data sample that contains 772×106 BB; pairs collected at the ?(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. The measured inclusive branching fraction and direct CP asymmetry are (5.38±0.40±0.35)×10-6 and -0.170±0.073±0.017, respectively, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. The K+K- invariant mass distribution of the signal candidates shows an excess in the region below 1.5 GeV/c2, which is consistent with the previous studies from BABAR and LHCb. In addition, strong evidence of a large direct CP asymmetry is found in the low K+K- invariant-mass region.

Original languageEnglish
Article number031101
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume96
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 31 Aug 2017

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