Evidence for $B^0 \to p\bar{\Sigma}^0\pi^-$ at Belle

• Published in: Physical review. D 2023-09, Vol.108
• Main Authors: Chang, C. -Y., Wang, M. -Z., Adachi, I., Aihara, H., Al Said, S., Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Babu, V., Banerjee, Sw, Bauer, M., Behera, P., Belous, K., Bennett, J., Bernlochner, F., Bessner, M., Bilka, T., Biswas, D., Bobrov, A., Bodrov, D., Bonvicini, G., Borah, J., Bozek, A., Bračko, M., Branchini, P., Browder, T. E., Budano, A., Campajola, M., Cao, L., Červenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, H. E., Cho, K., Cho, S. -J., Choi, S. -K., Choi, Y., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Das, S., De Nardo, G., de Pietro, G., Dhamija, R., Di Capua, F., Doležal, Z., Dong, T. V., Dubey, S., Ecker, P., Ferber, T., Ferlewicz, D., Fulsom, B. G., Gaur, V., Garmash, A., Giri, A., Goldenzweig, P., Graziani, E., Gu, T., Guan, Y., Gudkova, K., Hadjivasiliou, C., Halder, S., Hara, T., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Hazra, S., Hedges, M. T., Herrmann, D., Hou, W. -S., Hsu, C. -L., Inami, K., Ipsita, N., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Jacobs, W. W., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joo, K. K., Kaliyar, A. B., Kawasaki, T., Kiesling, C., Kim, C. H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, K. -H., Kim, Y. -K., Kinoshita, K., Kodyš, P., Konno, T., Korobov, A., Korpar, S., Kovalenko, E., Križan, P., Krokovny, P., Kuhr, T., Kumar, M., Kumara, K., Kuzmin, A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Physics
• ISSN: 2470-0010; 2470-0029
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.052011

We search for the $B^0\to p\bar{\Sigma}^0\pi^-$ decay with $\bar{\Sigma}^0 \to \bar{\Lambda}\gamma$, where the $\gamma$ is not measured, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 711 $\rm{fb^{-1}}$ which contains 772 $\times$ $10^{6}$ $B\bar{B}$ pairs, collected around the $\Upsilon$(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider. We measure for the first time the $B^0\to p\bar{\Sigma}^0\pi^-$ branching fraction to be $\mathcal{B}(B^0 \to p \bar\Sigma^0 \pi^-) = (1.17^{+0.43}_{-0.40}(\text{stat})\pm 0.07(\text{syst})) \times 10^{-6}$ with a significance of $3.0\sigma$. We simultaneously measure the branching fraction for the related channel $B^{0}\to p\bar{\Lambda}\pi^{-}$ with much improved precision.