Search for the suppressed decays B+→K+K+π− and B+→π+π+K

• Published in: Physics letters. B 2017-02, Vol.765 (C), p.307-316
• Main Authors: Akar, S., An, L., Andreassi, G., Bay, A., Benton, J., Betti, F., Bifani, S., Birnkraut, A., Blake, T., Bondar, A., Braun, S., Brodzicka, J., Calvi, M., Cassina, L., Cheung, S.-F., Cogan, J., Craik, D.C., David, P.N.Y., Dean, C.-T., Del Buono, L., Dettori, F., Di Canto, A., Dujany, G., Eitschberger, U., Ely, S., Fay, R., Fohl, K., Fontanelli, F., Gaspar, C., Giubega, L., Gizdov, K., Grünberg, O., Heß, M., John, M., Karodia, S., Koliiev, S., Krokovny, P., Leflat, A., Luo, H., Manning, P., Marchand, J.F., Martin, M., Mathe, Z., Mazurov, A., Melnychuk, D., Monteil, S., Naik, P., Neri, N., Neuner, M., O'Hanlon, D.P., Oblakowska-Mucha, A., Obraztsov, V., Palombo, F., Passaleva, G., Pellegrino, A., Perret, P., Pescatore, L., Petridis, K., Pietrzyk, B., Pistone, A., Price, E., Price, J.D., Quagliani, R., Raniuk, I., Raven, G., Redi, F., Ricciardi, S., Rihl, M., Robbe, P., Rodrigues, A.B., Roiser, S., Sanmartin Sedes, B., Santamarina Rios, C., Schmelling, M., Serrano, J., Seyfert, P., Shapkin, M., Simi, G., Snoek, H., Souza, D., Sridharan, S., Stenyakin, O., Szumlak, T., Ukleja, A., Ustyuzhanin, A., Vecchi, S., Vieites Diaz, M., Vilasis-Cardona, X., Vorobyev, V., Waldi, R., Wallace, R., Ward, D.R., Wark, H.M., Watson, N.K., Weiden, A., Wilkinson, M., Williams, M., Wishahi, J., Wislicki, W., Yuan, X.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0370-2693; 1873-2445
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.11.053

A search is made for the highly-suppressed B meson decays B+→K+K+π− and B+→π+π+K− using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb−1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton–proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. No evidence is found for the decays, and upper limits at 90% confidence level are determined to be B(B+→K+K+π−)