Measurement of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in the $B \to K^{(*)} \mu^+ \mu^-$ Decay and First Observation of the $B^0_s \to \phi \mu^+ \mu^-$ Decay

  • Aaltonen, T.
  • Phys., /Helsinki Inst. of
  • Alvarez Gonzalez, B.
  • Phys., /Oviedo U. /Cantabria Inst. of
  • Amerio, S.
  • /INFN, Padua
  • Amidei, D.
  • U., /Michigan
  • Anastassov, A.
  • U., /Northwestern
  • Annovi, A.
  • /Frascati
  • Antos, J.
  • U., /Comenius
  • Apollinari, G.
  • /Fermilab
  • Appel, J.A.
  • /Fermilab
  • Apresyan, A.
  • U., /Purdue
  • Arisawa, T.
  • /Waseda U. /Dubna, JINR
Publication date
January 2011
Publisher
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Abstract

We reconstruct the rare decays B{sup +} {yields} K{sup +} {mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -}, B{sup 0} {yields} K*(892){sup 0} {mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -}, and B{sub s}{sup 0} {yields} {phi}(1020){mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -} in a data sample corresponding to 4.4 fb{sup -1} collected in p{bar p} collisions at {radical}s = 1.96 TeV by the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Using 120 {+-} 16 B{sup +} {yields} K{sup +} {mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -} and 101 {+-} 12 B{sup 0} {yields} K*{sup 0} {mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -} decays we report the branching ratios. In addition, we report the measurement of the differential branching ratio and the muon forward-backward asymmetry in the B{sup +} and B{sup 0} decay modes, and the K*{sup 0} longitudinal polarization in the B...

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