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Radiative and Rare B-Decays at BaBar All results are preliminary unless journal ref. is given limit values are 90% CL unless otherwise specified Carsten Hast, SLAC for the BaBar Collaboration Pittsburgh, October 17
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC2 Overview Since this talk is nicely framed between a theoretical introduction and a Belle summary and outlook I will focus on newer results and analysis techniques from BaBar FCNC b K Purely Leptonic Decays b b b Kll and b K*ll B X s ll Radiative Decays B 0 K 2 *0 (1430) and B+ K 2 * + (1430)
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC3 DIRC PID) 144 quartz bars 11000 PMs 1.5 T solenoid EMC 6580 CsI(Tl) crystals Drift Chamber 40 stereo layers Instrumented Flux Return iron / RPCs (muon / neutral hadrons) Silicon Vertex Tracker 5 layers, double sided strips e + (3.1 GeV) e - (9 GeV) SVT+DCH: (p T )/p T = 0.13 % p T + 0.45 %, good dE/dx DIRC: K- separation 4.2 @ 3.0 GeV/c 2.5 @ 4.0 GeV/c EMC: Very good electron identification and 0 reconstruction IFR: Decent muon identification The BaBar Detector
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC4 On(off)-peak Run 1+282 (10)fb -1 Run 331 (4) fb -1 Run 46 (0)fb -1 Best Peformance PEPII peak Luminosity: 6.582x10 33 cm -2 sec -1 Integrated Luminosity Shift: 135.2 pb -1 in 24 hours: 391.2 pb -1 124.1 10 6 BB 89.7 10 6 BB 82 fb -1 on-peak data for analysis PEP- II Lumi Performance and Recorded BaBar Lumi
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC5 e + e - (4S) BB B produced almost at rest in (4S) frame For B decay with no missing particles use beam energy to constrain mass and energy of the reconstructed B background signal background 0 for signal m B for signal E and m ES provide uncorrelated measurement of energy and mass Standard Variables in (4S) Frame
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC6 The best upper limits (@90% CL): –CLEO:Br (B K ) 2.4 10 –4 –B A B AR : Br (B K ) 9.4 10 –5 Semi-Leptonic B-tags: B Dl X (X , 0 or nothing) 50.7 fb -1 New search (80 fb -1 ) with hadronic B-tags hep-ex/0207069 PRL 86 2950 (2001) Search A rare flavour changing neutral current (FCNC) b s decay SM prediction: Br (B K ) 4 10 –6 Summed over all neutrino species B D 0 (*) ( ) (K ) (K 0 s ) ( 0 ) (D* D 0 and D 0 K , K 0, K3 , K s ) B constraining kinematic variables: E and m ES
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC7 Identify tag B in signal E and m ES area All remaining tracks and neutrals belong to the recoiling signal-side B One well identified Kaon no 0 Missing momentum not in the beam pipe “extra” Energy < 300 MeV Data B K MC B + B MCB 0 B 0 MCcc MCu,d,s MC Search II
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC8 Upper Limit Selected events: 3 Expected background events: 2.7 0.8 Br ( B K ) < 1.05 10 4 @ 90% CL hep-ex/0304020 Br ( B K ) < 7.0 10 5 @ 90% CL Combining this result with the previous, (Br (B K ) 9.4 10–5) statistically independent BABAR result, yields a new limit: Going to PRL
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC9 Semi Leptonic B-tag B Dl X Hadronic B-tag B DX had 2 analyses of the 1999-2002 data sample: ~81 fb 1 Reconstruct one B meson as The remaining neutrals and tracks are signal candidates The two samples of tag B mesons are statistically independent (e, ) (e, ) (e, ) (e, ) ( , 0, ) ( , 0, ) very clean but low efficiency (~ 0.25 – 0.30 %) Search
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC10 event veto Only one charged track having low impact parameter Track is not identified as a kaon Track is an identified lepton Residual neutral energy is used to model PDFs to extract signal and background contributions Three preselections 1 track, 0 0 1 track, 1 0 3 tracks, 0 0 Track is not identified as a kaon Track is identified as lepton or pion Additional cuts on Missing momentum Residual neutral energy Track momentum Invariant masses Background mainly from V cb events Signal efficiency: 11.3%Signal efficiency: 11.3% Signal efficiency: 22.5%Signal efficiency: 22.5% Semi Leptonic B-Tag Hadronic B-Tag SignalBackground E left (GeV) Events/0.07 GeV Signal Selection
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC11 Br ( B ) < 7.7 10 4 hep-ex/0303034 hep-ex/0304030 Semi Leptonic B-Tag Hadronic B-Tag E left (GeV) Events/0.07 GeV Br ( B ) < 4.9 10 4 47.7 7.0 Observed events onpeak data 39.9 2.8 Expected Bkg in onpeak data (sideband extrapolation) 40.9 3.8 Expected Bkg from MC 35 37.6 4.7 1.5 All 10 8 6 7 4 6.7 2.0 0.6 5.0 1.7 0.4 11.2 2.5 0.5 10.4 2.6 1.2 4.3 1.4 0.3 e e 0 Data candidates Total BkgSelection Results Br ( B ) < 4.1 10 4 @ 90% CL SM prediction: < 9.2 10 5 Combined limit hep-ex/0305034
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC12 Search B rest frame CM frame Signal Monte Carlo Data sample 1999–2002: ~81fb –1 Two Body decay p( ) ~ m B /2 One well identified muon All the rest is from the companion B –do particle identification –No additional leptons allowed After the companion B was found, p( ) is re-reconstructed in the signal B rest frame
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC13 All other tracks and neutrals make the Companion-B Search Signal Monte Carlo
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC14 Signal Selection efficiency: 2.09% Selected events: 11 Expected background: 5.0 Bg fluctuation prob. to the signal: 4% Data B MC Signal box Sideband B ( B ) < 6.6 10 6 @ 90% CL @ 90% CL BABAR-CONF-03-007 +1.8 1.4 Upper Limit for Data
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC15 b K (*) l l Reconstruct K +, K s + -, K *0 K + -, K *+ K s + Lepton identification for e + e - with p(e) > 0.5 GeV/c, + - with p( ) > 1.0 GeV/c penguin diagram b s llbox diagram b s ll Updated result on 113 fb -1 accepted by PRL
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC16 b K (*) l l Peaking Background Events with the same final state: B J/ K (*), ’ K (*) Signal is scattered in this above area 500 fb -1 B J/ K(*), ’ K(*) Monte Carlo little to no contribution outside these veto bands J/ veto ’ veto M ll [Gev/c 2 ] E [GeV]
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC17 b K (*) l l Peaking Background II Background from lepton miss-identification B h + h - K (*) m ES [Gev/c 2 ] # Events h + h - K (*) events in data convolved with rates for h to fake e, 0.01 events 0.33 events Included as part of the fit to data
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC18 b K l l Results 2-D unbinned maximum LH fit to m ES and E on all 4 decays K + ee/ and K s 0 ee/ Br(b K ll) = (6.5 +1.4 -1.3 +/- 0.4 ) 10 -7 8.4 excess over background accepted by PRL
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC19 b K* l l Results 3-D unbinned maximum LH fit to m ES, E and m K Br(b K* ll) = (8.8 +3.3 -2.9 +/- 1.0 ) 10 -7 3.3 excess over background Constrain: K*ee = 1.33 X K* tot (B 0 ) = 1.08 X tot (B + ) accepted by PRL
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC20 b K ( * ) l l Results Comparison of m ll in data with simulation, normalized to the measured Br Fits well
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC21 Semi-Inclusive B Xs l l Sum of exclusive modes approach: reconstruct X s with 1 K ± or K 0 s + -, # ( + 0 ) 2, # 0 1 10 modes, ~50% of BR(B X s l + l - ) (75% if assumed K S =K L ) Similar analysis as b K ( * ) ll but with higher combinatoric background B Xs e + e - B Xs + - m ES [Gev/c 2 ]
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC22 Semi-Inclusive B Xs l l Results ModeN sig ( stat) Signifi- cance (stat) Effici- ency B X s e e 29.0 8.3 4.02.5% B X s 12.4 6.2 2.21.2% Sum 41.4 10.3 4.6 Br(B X s e e ) = (6.6 1.9 1.9 1.6 ) 10 6 Br(B X s ) = (5.7 2.8 1.7 1.4 ) 10 6 Br(B X s l l ) = (6.3 1.6 1.8 1.5 ) 10 6 + Data Monte Carlo
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC23 Br (B 0 K 2 * 0 (1430) ) BaBar (12.2 +/- 2.5 +/- 1.1)10 -6 (14.4 +/- 4.0 +/- 1.3)10 -6 Belle ( 13 +/- 5 +/- 1) 10 -6 Cleo (16.6 +/- 5.9 +/- 1.3) 10 -6 B 0 K 2 * 0 (1430) and B + K 2 * + (1430) Br (B + K 2 * + (1430) ) BaBar Preliminary
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC24 Summary (1) FCNC b K 3 bg events expected 3 seen Purely Leptonic Decays b difficult b looks quite interesting Radiative Decays B 0 K 2 *0 (1430) and B+ K 2 * + (1430) BaBar is in the game
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Beauty 2003, October 17thCarsten Hast, SLAC25 B s l l Summary Next step: measure angular and kinematic distributions …and have fun with the next talk covering all the other interesting rare results measured by Belle Br(b s ll) in good agreement within experiments and prediction
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