Observation of B+ --> K0bar K+ and B0 --> K0 K0bar

TL;DR

This paper reports the first measurement of time-dependent CP asymmetries in B0 --> K0 K0bar decays and measures branching fractions and CP asymmetries for several B meson decay modes using data from the BaBar detector.

Contribution

It presents the first measurement of time-dependent CP violation in B0 --> K0 K0bar decays and provides improved measurements of related decay modes.

Findings

Measured branching fractions for B+ --> K0bar K+ and B0 --> K0 K0bar.

First measurement of time-dependent CP asymmetries in B0 --> K0 K0bar.

Improved measurements of B+ --> K0 pi+ decay mode.

Abstract

We report observations of the b --> d penguin-dominated decays B+ --> K0bar K+ and B0 --> K0 K0bar in approximately 350 million Upsilon(4S) --> BBbar decays collected with the BaBar detector. We measure the branching fractions B(B+ --> K0bar K+) = (1.61 +/- 0.44 +/- 0.09) * 10^-6 and B(B0 --> K0 K0bar) = (1.08 +/- 0.28 +/- 0.11) * 10^-6, and the CP-violating charge asymmetry A_{CP}(K0bar K+) = 0.10 +/- 0.26 +/- 0.03. Using a vertexing technique previously employed in several analyses of all-neutral final states containing kaons, we report the first measurement of time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in B0 --> K0 K0bar, obtaining S = -1.28 +0.80/-0.73 +0.11/-0.16 and C = -0.40 +/- 0.41 +/- 0.06. We also report improved measurements of the branching fraction B(B+ --> K0 pi+) = (23.9 +/- 1.1 +/- 1.0) * 10^-6 and CP-violating charge asymmetry A_{CP}(K0 pi+) = -0.029 +/- 0.039 +/- 0.010.