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Evidence for the decay $B^{0}\to ηη$

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Abdesselam, A; Adachi, I; Adamczyk, K; Aihara, H; Said, SA; Arinstein, K; Arita, Y; Asner, DM; Aso, T; Atmacan, H; Aulchenko, V; Aushev, T ...
September 12, 2016

We report a search for $B^{0}\to \eta \eta $ with a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $698 \,{\rm fb}^{-1}$ containing $753 \times 10^{6}$ $B\bar{B}$ pairs collected at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider. The branching fraction is measured to be $\mathcal{B}(B^{0} \to \eta \eta ) = (7.6^{+2.7 +1.4}_{-2.3 -1.6}) \times 10^{-7}$ at the level of 3.3 standard deviations above zero, which provides the first evidence for the decay $B^{0} \to \eta \eta$.

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Abdesselam, A., Adachi, I., Adamczyk, K., Aihara, H., Said, S. A., Arinstein, K., … Zyukova, O. (2016). Evidence for the decay $B^{0}\to ηη$.
Abdesselam, A., I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk, H. Aihara, S Al Said, K. Arinstein, Y. Arita, et al. “Evidence for the decay $B^{0}\to ηη$,” September 12, 2016.
Abdesselam A, Adachi I, Adamczyk K, Aihara H, Said SA, Arinstein K, et al. Evidence for the decay $B^{0}\to ηη$. 2016 Sep 12;
Abdesselam, A., et al. Evidence for the decay $B^{0}\to ηη$. Sept. 2016.
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