Search for B decays to final states with the eta_c meson
Creators: name: Belle Collaboration
name: Vinokurova, A.
name: Kuzmin, A.
name: Eidelman, S.
name: Abdesselam, A.
name: Adachi, I.
name: Aihara, H.
name: Arinstein, K.
name: Asner, D. M.
name: Aushev, T.
name: Ayad, R.
name: Bakich, A. M.
name: Bansal, V.
name: Bhardwaj, V.
name: Bhuyan, B.
name: Bobrov, A.
name: Bondar, A.
name: Bozek, A.
name: Bračko, M.
name: Browder, T. E.
name: Chekelian, V.
name: Cheon, B. G.
name: Chilikin, K.
name: Chistov, R.
name: Cho, K.
name: Choi, S. -K.
name: Choi, Y.
name: Cinabro, D.
name: Dingfelder, J.
name: Doležal, Z.
name: Drásal, Z.
name: Drutskoy, A.
name: Dutta, D.
name: Epifanov, D.
name: Farhat, H.
name: Fast, J. E.
name: Ferber, T.
name: Gaur, V.
name: Gabyshev, N.
name: Garmash, A.
name: Gillard, R.
name: Goh, Y. M.
name: Golob, B.
name: Haba, J.
name: Hayasaka, K.
name: Hayashii, H.
name: He, X. H.
name: Hou, W. -S.
name: Inami, K.
name: Ishikawa, A.
name: Itoh, R.
name: Iwasaki, Y.
name: Joffe, D.
name: Julius, T.
name: Kang, K. H.
name: Kato, E.
name: Kiesling, C.
name: Kim, D. Y.
name: Kim, H. J.
name: Kim, J. H.
name: Kim, K. T.
name: Kim, M. J.
name: Kim, S. H.
name: Kim, Y. J.
name: Kinoshita, K.
name: Ko, B. R.
name: Kodyš, P.
name: Korpar, S.
name: Križan, P.
name: Krokovny, P.
name: Kuhr, T.
name: Kumita, T.
name: Kwon, Y. -J.
name: Lange, J. S.
name: Gioi, L. Li
name: Libby, J.
name: Liventsev, D.
name: Lukin, P.
name: Matvienko, D.
name: Miyabayashi, K.
name: Miyake, H.
name: Miyata, H.
name: Mohanty, G. B.
name: Moll, A.
name: Mori, T.
name: Mussa, R.
name: Nakano, E.
name: Nakao, M.
name: Natkaniec, Z.
name: Ng, C.
name: Nisar, N. K.
name: Nishida, S.
name: Ogawa, S.
name: Okuno, S.
name: Olsen, S. L.
name: Pakhlov, P.
name: Pakhlova, G.
name: Park, C. W.
name: Park, H.
name: Pedlar, T. K.
name: Pestotnik, R.
name: Petrič, M.
name: Piilonen, L. E.
name: Ribežl, E.
name: Ritter, M.
name: Rostomyan, A.
name: Sakai, Y.
name: Sandilya, S.
name: Santel, D.
name: Santelj, L.
name: Sanuki, T.
name: Sato, Y.
name: Savinov, V.
name: Schneider, O.
name: Schnell, G.
name: Schwanda, C.
name: Semmler, D.
name: Senyo, K.
name: Seon, O.
name: Sevior, M. E.
name: Shebalin, V.
name: Shen, C. P.
name: Shibata, T. -A.
name: Shiu, J. -G.
name: Shwartz, B.
name: Sibidanov, A.
name: Simon, F.
name: Sohn, Y. -S.
name: Sokolov, A.
name: Solovieva, E.
name: Stanič, S.
name: Starič, M.
name: Steder, M.
name: Sumihama, M.
name: Sumiyoshi, T.
name: Tamponi, U.
name: Tatishvili, G.
name: Teramoto, Y.
name: Uchida, M.
name: Uglov, T.
name: Unno, Y.
name: Uno, S.
name: Van Hulse, C.
name: Vanhoefer, P.
name: Varner, G.
name: Vorobyev, V.
name: Wagner, M. N.
name: Wang, C. H.
name: Wang, M. -Z.
name: Wang, P.
name: Watanabe, Y.
name: Williams, K. M.
name: Won, E.
name: Yamaoka, J.
name: Yashchenko, S.
name: Yook, Y.
name: Zhang, Z. P.
name: Zhulanov, V.
name: Zupanc, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a search for $B$ decays to selected final states with the $η_c$ meson: $B^{\pm}\to K^{\pm}η_cπ^+π^-$, $B^{\pm}\to K^{\pm}η_cω$, $B^{\pm}\to K^{\pm}η_cη$ and $B^{\pm}\to K^{\pm}η_cπ^0$. The analysis is based on $772\times 10^6$ $B\bar{B}$ pairs collected at the $Υ(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^+e^-$ collider. We set 90\% confidence level upper limits on the branching fractions of the studied $B$ decay modes, independent of intermediate resonances, in the range $(0.6-5.3)\times 10^{-4}$. We also search for molecular-state candidates in the $D^0\bar{D}^{*0}-\bar{D}^0D^{*0}$, $D^0\bar{D}^0+\bar{D}^0D^0$ and $D^{*0}\bar{D}^{*0}+\bar{D}^{*0}D^{*0}$ combinations, neutral partners of the $Z(3900)^{\pm}$ and $Z(4020)^{\pm}$, and a poorly understood state $X(3915)$ as possible intermediate states in the decay chain, and set 90\% confidence level upper limits on the product of branching fractions to the mentioned intermediate states and decay branching fractions of these states in the range $(0.6-6.9)\times 10^{-5}$.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures, accepted to JHEP