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Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Jan 14;88(2):021801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.021801. Epub 2001 Dec 27.

Observation of the decay B --> Kl+l-.

Physical review letters

K Abe, K Abe, R Abe, I Adachi, Byoung Sup Ahn, H Aihara, M Akatsu, Y Asano, T Aso, V Aulchenko, T Aushev, A M Bakich, E Banas, S Behari, P K Behera, A Bondar, A Bozek, T E Browder, B C K Casey, P Chang, Y Chao, B G Cheon, R Chistov, S-K Choi, Y Choi, L Y Dong, A Drutskoy, S Eidelman, Y Enari, F Fang, H Fujii, C Fukunaga, M Fukushima, N Gabyshev, A Garmash, T Gershon, A Gordon, K Gotow, R Guo, J Haba, H Hamasaki, K Hanagaki, F Handa, K Hara, T Hara, N C Hastings, H Hayashii, M Hazumi, E M Heenan, I Higuchi, T Higuchi, H Hirano, T Hojo, T Hokuue, Y Hoshi, K Hoshina, S R Hou, W-S Hou, S-C Hsu, H-C Huang, Y Igarashi, T Iijima, H Ikeda, K Inami, A Ishikawa, H Ishino, R Itoh, H Iwasaki, Y Iwasaki, D J Jackson, H K Jang, H Kakuno, J Kaneko, J H Kang, J S Kang, P Kapusta, N Katayama, H Kawai, H Kawai, N Kawamura, T Kawasaki, H Kichimi, D W Kim, Heejong Kim, H J Kim, H O Kim, Hyunwoo Kim, S K Kim, K Kinoshita, S Kobayashi, H Konishi, P Krokovny, R Kulasiri, S Kumar, A Kuzmin, Y-J Kwon, J S Lange, G Leder, S H Lee, D Liventsev, R-S Lu, J MacNaughton, T Matsubara, S Matsumoto, T Matsumoto, Y Mikami, K Miyabayashi, H Miyake, H Miyata, G R Moloney, G F Moorhead, S Mori, T Mori, A Murakami, T Nagamine, Y Nagasaka, Y Nagashima, T Nakadaira, E Nakano, M Nakao, J W Nam, Z Natkaniec, K Neichi, S Nishida, O Nitoh, S Noguchi, T Nozaki, S Ogawa, T Ohshima, T Okabe, S Okuno, S L Olsen, W Ostrowicz, H Ozaki, P Pakhlov, H Palka, C S Park, C W Park, H Park, K S Park, L S Peak, M Peters, L E Piilonen, J L Rodriguez, N Root, M Rozanska, K Rybicki, J Ryuko, H Sagawa, Y Sakai, H Sakamoto, A Satpathy, S Schrenk, S Semenov, K Senyo, M E Sevior, H Shibuya, B Schwartz, S Stanic, A Sugi, A Sugiyama, K Sumisawa, T Sumiyoshi, K Suzuki, S Suzuki, S Y Suzuki, S K Swain, H Tajima, T Takahashi, F Takasaki, M Takita, K Tamai, N Tamura, J Tanaka, M Tanaka, Y Tanaka, G N Taylor, Y Teramoto, M Tomoto, T Tomura, S N Tovey, K Trabelsi, T Tsuboyama, T Tsukamoto, S Uehara, K Ueno, Y Unno, S Uno, Y Ushiroda, K E Varvell, C C Wang, C H Wang, J G Wang, M-Z Wang, Y Watanabe, E Won, B D Yabsley, Y Yamada, M Yamaga, A Yamaguchi, H Yamamoto, Y Yamashita, M Yamauchi, J Yashima, M Yokoyama, K Yoshida, Y Yusa, H Yuta, C C Zhang, J Zhang, H W Zhao, Y Zheng, V Zhilich, D Zontar,

Affiliations

  1. High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba.

PMID: 11801003 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.021801

Abstract

We report a search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay B-->K(*)l+l- using a 29.1 fb(-1) data sample accumulated at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- storage ring. We observe the decay process B-->Kl+l-(l = e, mu), for the first time, with a branching fraction of B(B-->Kl+l-) = (0.75(+0.25)(-0.21)+/-0.09)x10(-6).

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