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Observation of the decay B0 → ρ+ ρ- and measurement of the branching fraction and polarization
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Aubert, B; Barate, R; Boutigny, D; Couderc, F; Gaillard, JM; Hicheur, A; Karyotakis, Y; Lees, JP; Tisserand, V; Zghiche, A; Palano, A; Pompili, A; Chen, JC; Qi, ND; Rong, G; Wang, P; Zhu, YS; Eigen, G; Ofte, I; Stugu, B; Abrams, GS; Borgland, AW; Breon, AB; Brown, DN; Button-Shafer, J; Cahn, RN; Charles, E; Day, CT; Gill, MS; Gritsan, AV; Groysman, Y; Jacobsen, RG; Kadel, RW; Kadyk, J; Kerth, LT; Kolomensky, YG; Kukartsev, G; Leclerc, C; Levi, ME; Lynch, G; Mir, LM; Oddone, PJ; Orimoto, TJ; Pripstein, M; Roe, NA; Ronan, MT; Shelkov, VG; Telnov, AV; Wenzel, WA; Ford, K; Harrison, TJ; Hawkes, CM; Morgan, SE; Watson, AT; Watson, NK; Fritsch, M; Goetzen, K; Held, T; Koch, H; Lewandowski, B; Pelizaeus, M; Peters, K; Schmuecker, H; Steinke, M; Boyd, JT; Chevalier, N; Cottingham, WN; Kelly, MP; Latham, TE; Mackay, C; Wilson, FF; Abe, K; Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T; Hearty, C; Mattison, TS; McKenna, JA; Thiessen, D; Kyberd, P; McKemey, AK; Teodorescu, L; Blinov, VE; Bukin, AD; Golubev, VB; Ivanchenko, VN; Kravchenko, EA; Onuchin, AP; Serednyakov, SI; Skovpen, YI; Solodov, EP; Yushkov, AN; Best, D; Bruinsma, M; Chao, M; Eschrich, I; Kirkby, D; Lankford, AJ; Mandelkern, M; Mommsen, RK; Roethel, W; Stoker, DP
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Physical Review D. 69(3)
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We have observed the rare decay B0 → ρ+ ρ- in a sample of 89 million BB̄ pairs recorded with the BABAR detector. The number of observed events is 88-21+23±9 with a significance of 5.1 standard deviations with systematic uncertainties included. The branching fraction and the longitudinal polarization are measured to be β(B0 → ρ+ ρ-) = (25-6-6+7+5× 10-6 and ΓLΓ = 0.98-0.08+0.02±0. 03, respectively. © 2004 The American Physical Society.