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Measurements of Branching Fractions and Polarization in B > K^* rho Decays

K. Abe, for the Belle Collaboration

Published 2004-08-22Version 1

We present results of a study of the charmless vector-vector decays B^0 -> K^{*0} rho^0 and B^+ ->K^{*0} rho^+. The results are based on a 140 fb^{-1} data sample collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric e^+e^- collider. We obtain the branching fraction B(B^+ -> K^{*0} rho^+)=(6.6 +- 2.2(stat.) +- 0.8 (syst.)) x 10^{-6}, and set upper limits on the branching fractions B(B^0 -> K^{*0} rho^0)<2.6 x 10^{-6} and B(B^0 -> f_0(980) K^{*0})<5.2 x 10^{-6}. We also perform a helicity analysis of the rho and K^* vector mesons in the decay B^+ -> K^{*0} rho^+, and obtain the longitudinal polarization fraction R_0(B^+ -> K^{*0} rho^+)=0.50 +- 0.19(stat.)+0.05-0.07}(syst.).

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ICHEP04, Beijing, China
Journal: Phys.Rev.Lett.95:141801,2005
Categories: hep-ex
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