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Measurements of branching fractions and CP-violating charge asymmetries in multibody charmless $B$ decays reconstructed in 2019-2020 Belle II data

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collaboration, BII; Abudinén, F; Adachi, I; Adak, R; Adamczyk, K; Ahlburg, P; Ahn, JK; Aihara, H; Akopov, N; Aloisio, A; Ameli, F; Andricek, L ...
September 22, 2021

We report on measurements of branching fractions ($\mathcal{B}$) and CP-violating charge asymmetries ($\mathcal{A}_{\rm CP}$) of multibody charmless $B$ decays reconstructed by the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider. We use a sample of collisions collected in 2019 and 2020 at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance and corresponding to $62.8$ fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity. We use simulation to determine optimized event selections. The $\Delta E$ and $M_{\rm bc}$ distributions of the resulting samples are fit to determine signal yields of approximately 690, 840, and 380 decays for the channels $B^+ \to K^+K^-K^+$, $B^+ \to K^+\pi^-\pi^+$, and $B^0 \to K^+\pi^-\pi^0$, respectively. These yields are corrected for efficiencies determined from simulation and control data samples to obtain $\mathcal{B}(B^+ \to K^+K^-K^+) = [35.8 \pm 1.6(\rm stat) \pm 1.4 (\rm syst)]\times 10^{-6}$, $\mathcal{B}(B^+ \to K^+\pi^-\pi^+) = [67.0 \pm 3.3 (\rm stat)\pm 2.3 (\rm syst)]\times 10^{-6}$, $\mathcal{B}(B^0 \to K^+\pi^-\pi^0) = [38.1 \pm 3.5 (\rm stat)\pm 3.9 (\rm syst)]\times 10^{-6}$, $\mathcal{A}_{\rm CP}(B^+ \to K^+K^-K^+) = -0.103 \pm 0.042(\rm stat) \pm 0.020 (\rm syst)$, $\mathcal{A}_{\rm CP}(B^+ \to K^+\pi^-\pi^+) = -0.010 \pm 0.050 (\rm stat)\pm 0.021(\rm syst)$, and $\mathcal{A}_{\rm CP}(B^0 \to K^+\pi^-\pi^0) = 0.207 \pm 0.088 (\rm stat)\pm 0.011(\rm syst)$. Results are consistent with previous measurements and demonstrate detector performance comparable with the best Belle results.

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collaboration, B. I. I., Abudinén, F., Adachi, I., Adak, R., Adamczyk, K., Ahlburg, P., … Varvell, K. E. (2021). Measurements of branching fractions and CP-violating charge asymmetries in multibody charmless $B$ decays reconstructed in 2019-2020 Belle II data.
collaboration, Belle I. I., F. Abudinén, I. Adachi, R. Adak, K. Adamczyk, P. Ahlburg, J. K. Ahn, et al. “Measurements of branching fractions and CP-violating charge asymmetries in multibody charmless $B$ decays reconstructed in 2019-2020 Belle II data,” September 22, 2021.
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September 22, 2021