SLAC - PUB - 10644 Measurements of Branching Fractions and CP - Violating Asymmetries in B - Meson Decays to the

We present preliminary measurements of branching fractions and CP -violating asymmetries in decays of B mesons to two-body final states containing a K. The results are based on a data sample of approximately 227 million Υ (4S) → BB decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC. We measure B(B+ → Kπ) = (26.0 ± 1.3 ± 1.0) × 10, B(B+ → KK) = (1.45 −0.46±0.11)×10(< 2.35×10−6), and B(B0 → KK) = (1.19 −0.35±0.13)×10 , where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic, and the upper limit is at a 90% confidence level. The significance of the B(B+ → KK) and B(B0 → KK) results are 3.5σ and 4.5σ, respectively, including systematic uncertainties. In addition, we obtain a measurement of the CP -violating asymmetry for the B → Kπ mode and we determine a 90% confidence-level interval for the asymmetry in the B → KK mode: ACP (B → Kπ) = −0.087 ± 0.046 ± 0.010 and ACP (B → KK) ∈ [−0.43, 0.68]. Submitted to the 32 International Conference on High-Energy Physics, ICHEP 04, 16 August—22 August 2004, Beijing, China 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, R. Barate, D. Boutigny, F. Couderc, J.-M. Gaillard, A. Hicheur, Y. Karyotakis, J. P. Lees, 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 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, C. T. Day, M. S. Gill, A. V. Gritsan, Y. Groysman, R. G. Jacobsen, R. W. Kadel, J. Kadyk, L. T. Kerth, Yu. G. Kolomensky, G. Kukartsev, G. Lynch, L. M. Mir, P. J. Oddone, T. J. Orimoto, M. Pripstein, N. A. Roe, M. T. Ronan, V. G. Shelkov, W. A. Wenzel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA M. Barrett, K. E. Ford, T. J. Harrison, A. J. Hart, C. M. Hawkes, S. E. Morgan, A. T. Watson University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom M. Fritsch, K. Goetzen, T. Held, H. Koch, B. Lewandowski, M. Pelizaeus, M. Steinke Ruhr Universität Bochum, Institut für Experimentalphysik 1, D-44780 Bochum, Germany J. T. Boyd, N. Chevalier, W. N. Cottingham, M. P. Kelly, T. E. Latham, F. F. Wilson University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, United Kingdom T. Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C. Hearty, N. S. Knecht, T. S. Mattison, J. A. McKenna, D. Thiessen University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1 A. Khan, P. Kyberd, L. Teodorescu Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, United Kingdom A. E. Blinov, V. E. Blinov, V. P. Druzhinin, V. B. Golubev, V. N. Ivanchenko, E. A. Kravchenko, A. P. Onuchin, S. I. Serednyakov, Yu. I. Skovpen, E. P. Solodov, A. N. Yushkov Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia D. Best, M. Bruinsma, M. Chao, I. Eschrich, D. Kirkby, A. J. Lankford, M. Mandelkern, R. K. Mommsen, W. Roethel, D. P. Stoker University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA C. Buchanan, B. L. Hartfiel University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA