Measurement of branching fraction and direct $CP$ asymmetry in charmless $B^+ \to K^+K^- π^+$ decays at Belle
Creators: name: Belle Collaboration
name: Hsu, C. -L.
name: Dossett, D.
name: Sevior, M. E.
name: Adachi, I.
name: Aihara, H.
name: Said, S. Al
name: Asner, D. M.
name: Atmacan, H.
name: Aulchenko, V.
name: Aushev, T.
name: Badhrees, I.
name: Bakich, A. M.
name: Barberio, E.
name: Behera, P.
name: Berger, M.
name: Bhardwaj, V.
name: Bhuyan, B.
name: Biswal, J.
name: Bloomfield, T.
name: Bondar, A.
name: Bonvicini, G.
name: Bozek, A.
name: Bračko, M.
name: Browder, T. E.
name: Chekelian, V.
name: Chen, A.
name: Chilikin, K.
name: Chistov, R.
name: Cho, K.
name: Choi, Y.
name: Cinabro, D.
name: Dash, N.
name: Di Carlo, S.
name: Doležal, Z.
name: Drásal, Z.
name: Eidelman, S.
name: Farhat, H.
name: Fast, J. E.
name: Fulsom, B. G.
name: Gaur, V.
name: Gabyshev, N.
name: Garmash, A.
name: Goldenzweig, P.
name: Golob, B.
name: Grzymkowska, O.
name: Guido, E.
name: Hara, T.
name: Hayasaka, K.
name: Hayashii, H.
name: Hedges, M. T.
name: Hou, W. -S.
name: Inami, K.
name: Inguglia, G.
name: Ishikawa, A.
name: Jacobs, W. W.
name: Jaegle, I.
name: Jeon, H. B.
name: Jin, Y.
name: Joffe, D.
name: Joo, K. K.
name: Julius, T.
name: Kaliyar, A. B.
name: Kang, K. H.
name: Katrenko, P.
name: Kawasaki, T.
name: Kiesling, C.
name: Kim, D. Y.
name: Kim, H. J.
name: Kim, J. B.
name: Kim, K. T.
name: Kim, M. J.
name: Kim, S. H.
name: Kodyš, P.
name: Korpar, S.
name: Kotchetkov, D.
name: Križan, P.
name: Krokovny, P.
name: Kuhr, T.
name: Kulasiri, R.
name: Kuzmin, A.
name: Kwon, Y. -J.
name: Lai, Y. -T.
name: Lange, J. S.
name: Li, C. H.
name: Li, L.
name: Gioi, L. Li
name: Libby, J.
name: Liventsev, D.
name: Lubej, M.
name: Luo, T.
name: Masuda, M.
name: Matsuda, T.
name: Matvienko, D.
name: Miyabayashi, K.
name: Miyata, H.
name: Mizuk, R.
name: Mohanty, G. B.
name: Mori, T.
name: Mussa, R.
name: Nakano, E.
name: Nakao, M.
name: Nanut, T.
name: Nath, K. J.
name: Natkaniec, Z.
name: Nayak, M.
name: Nisar, N. K.
name: Nishida, S.
name: Ogawa, S.
name: Okuno, S.
name: Ono, H.
name: Onuki, Y.
name: Pakhlova, G.
name: Pal, B.
name: Park, C. -S.
name: Park, C. W.
name: Park, H.
name: Paul, S.
name: Pesántez, L.
name: Piilonen, L. E.
name: Rostomyan, A.
name: Sakai, Y.
name: Sandilya, S.
name: Sanuki, T.
name: Sato, Y.
name: Savinov, V.
name: Schneider, O.
name: Schnell, G.
name: Schwanda, C.
name: Seino, Y.
name: Senyo, K.
name: Shebalin, V.
name: Shibata, T. -A.
name: Shiu, J. -G.
name: Shwartz, B.
name: Simon, F.
name: Solovieva, E.
name: Starič, M.
name: Strube, J. F.
name: Sumisawa, K.
name: Takizawa, M.
name: Tenchini, F.
name: Uchida, M.
name: Uglov, T.
name: Unno, Y.
name: Uno, S.
name: Urquijo, P.
name: Usov, Y.
name: Van Hulse, C.
name: Varner, G.
name: Varvell, K. E.
name: Vorobyev, V.
name: Waheed, E.
name: Wang, C. H.
name: Wang, M. -Z.
name: Wang, X. L.
name: Watanabe, M.
name: Watanabe, Y.
name: Widmann, E.
name: Williams, K. M.
name: Won, E.
name: Yamashita, Y.
name: Ye, H.
name: Zhang, Z. P.
name: Zhilich, V.
name: Zhukova, V.
name: Zhulanov, V.
name: Zupanc, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a study of the charmless hadronic decay of the charged $B$ meson to the three-body final state $K^+ K^- π^+$. The results are based on a data sample that contains $772\times10^6$ $B \bar{B}$ pairs collected at the $Υ(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^+ e^-$ collider. The measured inclusive branching fraction and the direct $CP$ asymmetry are $(5.38\pm0.40\pm0.35)\times 10^{-6}$ and $-0.170\pm0.073\pm0.017$, respectively, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. The $K^{+}K^{-}$ invariant mass distribution of the signal candidates shows an excess in the region below $1.5$ GeV/$c^2$, which is consistent with the previous studies from BaBar and LHCb. In addition, strong evidence of a large direct $CP$ asymmetry is found in the $K^{+}K^{-}$ low-invariant-mass region.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures