Branching Fractions and Direct CP Asymmetries of Charmless B Decay Modes at CDF

TL;DR

This paper reports new measurements of branching fractions and CP asymmetries in charmless B meson decays, including the first observation of certain decay modes, using data from the CDF experiment at Fermilab.

Contribution

It provides the first observation of the $B_s o K^- o ext{pion}$ mode and two charmless $$-baryon decays, with measurements of their branching fractions and CP asymmetries.

Findings

First observation of $B_s o K^- o ext{pion}$ decay mode.

First observation of $$-baryon decays $ o p ext{-} ext{pi}$ and $ o p ext{-} ext{K}$.

Measurements of branching fractions and CP asymmetries for these decay modes.

Abstract

We present new CDF results on the branching fractions and time-integrated direct CP asymmetries for $B^0$ and $B^0_s$ decay modes into pairs of charmless charged hadrons (pions or kaons). The data-set for this update amounts to 1 $\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of $p\bar p$ collisions at a center of mass energy 1.96 $\mathrm{TeV}$. We report the first observation of the $B_s \to K^- \pi^+$ mode and a measurement of its branching fraction and direct CP asymmetry. We also observe for the first time two charmless decays of the $\Lambda_b^0$-baryon: $\Lambda_b^0 \to p\pi^-$ and $\Lambda_b^0 \to pK^-$.