Search for Direct CP Violation in QuasiTwoBody Charmless B Decays.pdfVIP

BABAR-CONF-01/09 SLAC-PUB-8980 September, 2001 1 0 0 2 p e Search for Direct CP Violation S in Quasi-Two-Body Charmless B Decays 7 1 v 6 The BABAR Collaboration 0 0 9 February 7, 2008 0 1 0 / x e - Abstract p e h We have searched for direct CP violation in quasi-two-body charmless B decays observed in a : sample of about 45 million B mesons collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II collider. v i ± ′ ± We measure the following charge asymmetries in decay: ACP (B → η K ) = −0.11 ± 0.11 ± 0.02, X ACP (B± → ωπ±) = −0.01+0.29 ± 0.03, ACP (B± → φK±) = −0.05 ± 0.20 ± 0.03, r −0.31 ± ∗± +0.36 0 ¯0 ∗0 ¯ ∗0 a ACP (B → φK ) = −0.43−0.30 ± 0.06, and ACP (B /B → φK /K ) = 0.00 ± 0.27 ± 0.03. Submitted to the 9th International Symposium on Heavy Flavor Physics, 9/10—9/13/2001, Pasadena, CA, USA Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94309 Work supported in part by Department of Energy contract DE-AC03-76SF00515. The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert, D. Boutigny, J.-M. Gaillard, A. Hicheur, Y. Karyotakis, J. P. Lees, P. Robbe, V. Tisserand Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux, France A. Palano, A. Pompili