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Elsevier, Physics Letters B, 1-2(659), p. 80-86, 2008

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.063

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Study of the decay mechanism for B+→pp¯K+ and B+→pp¯π+

Journal article published in 2008 by J.-T. Wei, M.-Z. Wang, I. Adachi, H. Aihara, V. Aulchenko, T. Aushev, A. M. Bakich, V. Balagura, E. Barberio, A. Bay, K. Belous, U. Bitenc, A. Bondar, A. Bozek, M. Bračko and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We study the characteristics of the low mass pp¯ enhancements near threshold in the three-body decays B-->pp¯K and B-->pp¯pi. We observe that the proton polar angle distributions in the pp¯ helicity frame in the two decays have the opposite polarity, and measure the forward-backward asymmetries as a function of the pp¯ mass for the pp¯K mode. We also search for the intermediate two-body decays, B-->p¯Delta and B-->pDelta, and set upper limits on their branching fractions. These results are obtained from a 414 fb data sample that contains 449×10BB¯ events collected near the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy ee collider.