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arXiv2000

Measurement of branching fractions for two-body charmless B decays to charged pions and kaons at BABAR

We present preliminary results of a search for charmless two-body B decays to charged pions and kaons using data collected by the BABAR detector at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's PEP-II storage ring. In a sample of 8.8 million produced B-anti-B pairs we measure the branching fractions B(B^0 --> pi^+pi^-) = (9.3^{+2.6}_{-2.3}^{+1.2}_{-1.4}) x 10^{-6} and B(B^0 --> K^+π^-) = (12.5^{+3.0}_{-2.6}^{+1.3}_{-1.7}) x 10^{-6}, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. For the decay B^0 --> K^+K^- we find no significant signal and set an upper limit of B(B^0 --> K^+K^-) < 6.6 x 10^{-6} at the 90% confidence level.

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arXiv2000

Measurements of charmless three-body and quasi-two-body B decays

We present preliminary results of a search for several exclusive charmless hadronic B decays from electron-positron annihilation data collected by the BABAR detector near the Y(4S) resonance. These include three-body decay modes with final states h^{+/-}h^{-/+}h^{+/-} and h^{+/-}h^{-/+}pi^0, and quasi-two-body decay modes with final states X^0 h and X^0 K0S, where h = pi or K and X^0 = eta^' or omega. We find B(B^0 --> rho^(-/+)pi^(+/-)) = (49+/-13^{+6}_{-5}) x 10^{-6} and B(B^+ --> eta^' K^+) = (62+/-18+/-8) x 10^{-6} and present upper limits for eight other decays.

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arXiv2000

Search for B^+ --> K^+l^+l^- and B^0 --> K^(*0)l^+l^-

Using a sample of 3.7 x 10^{6} Y(4S) --> B-anti-B events collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II storage ring, we search for the electroweak penguin decays B^+ --> K^+e^+e^-, B^+ --> K^+mu^+mu^-, B^0 --> K^{*0)e^+e^-, and B^0 --> K^{*0)mu^+mu^-. We observe no significant signals for these modes and set preliminary 90% C.L. upper limits of B(B^+ --> K^+e^+e^-) < 12.5 x 10^{-6}, B(B^+ --> K^+mu^+mu^-) < 8.3 x 10^{-6}, B(B^0 --> K^{*0)e^+e^-) < 24.1 x 10^{-6}, B(B^0 --> K^{*0)mu^+mu^-) < 24.5 x 10^{-6}.

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