Measurements of Charmless Two-Body Charged B Decays with Neutral Pions and Kaons

We present preliminary results of the analyses of B → hπ and B → hK decays (with h = π,K) from a sample of approximately 60 million BB pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC. We find evidence for a signal in B → ππ, and we measure the branching fraction B(B → ππ) = (4.1 −1.0 ± 0.8)× 10. We also measure the following branching ratios and charge asymmetries: B(B → Kπ) = (11.1 −1.2 ± 1.0) × 10, B(B → πK) = (17.5 −1.7 ± 1.3)× 10, B(B → KK) < 1.3× 10 (90% CL), Aπ+π0 = −0.02 −0.26 ± 0.10, AK+π0 = 0.00± 0.11± 0.02, Aπ+K0 = −0.17± 0.10± 0.02, where the errors are statistical and systematic, respectively. Presented at the Conference on Flavor Physics and CP Violation (FPCP) 5/16–5/18/2002, Philadelphia, PA, 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, A. Zghiche Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux, France A. Palano, A. Pompili Università di Bari, Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, I-70126 Bari, Italy G. P. Chen, J. C. Chen, N. D. Qi, G. Rong, P. Wang, Y. S. Zhu Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100039, China G. Eigen, I. Ofte, B. Stugu University of Bergen, Inst. of Physics, N-5007 Bergen, Norway G. S. Abrams, A. W. Borgland, A. B. Breon, D. N. Brown, J. Button-Shafer, R. N. Cahn, E. Charles, M. S. Gill, A. V. Gritsan, Y. Groysman, R. G. Jacobsen, R. W. Kadel, J. Kadyk, L. T. Kerth, Yu. G. Kolomensky, J. F. Kral, C. LeClerc, M. E. Levi, G. Lynch, L. M. Mir, P. J. Oddone, T. Orimoto, M. Pripstein, N. A. Roe, A. Romosan, M. T. Ronan, V. G. Shelkov, A. V. Telnov, W. A. Wenzel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA T. J. Harrison, C. M. Hawkes, D. J. Knowles, S. W. O’Neale, R. C. Penny, A. T. Watson, N. K. Watson University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom T. Deppermann, K. Goetzen, H. Koch, B. Lewandowski, K. Peters, H. Schmuecker, M. Steinke Ruhr Universität Bochum, Institut für Experimentalphysik 1, D-44780 Bochum, Germany N. R. Barlow, W. Bhimji, J. T. Boyd, N. Chevalier, P. J. Clark, W. N. Cottingham, B. Foster, C. Mackay, F. F. Wilson University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, United Kingdom K. Abe, C. Hearty, T. S. Mattison, J. A. McKenna, D. Thiessen University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1 S. Jolly, A. K. McKemey Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, United Kingdom V. E. Blinov, A. D. Bukin, A. R. Buzykaev, V. B. Golubev, V. N. Ivanchenko, A. A. Korol, E. A. Kravchenko, A. P. Onuchin, S. I. Serednyakov, Yu. I. Skovpen, A. N. Yushkov Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia D. Best, M. Chao, D. Kirkby, A. J. Lankford, M. Mandelkern, S. McMahon, D. P. Stoker University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA K. Arisaka, C. Buchanan, S. Chun University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA D. B. MacFarlane, S. Prell, Sh. Rahatlou, G. Raven, V. Sharma University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA