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We measure the branching fraction of the decayusing data collected with the Belle II detector. The data contain 387 millionpairs produced incollisions at theresonance. We reconstructdecays from an analysis of the distributions of theenergy and thehelicity angle. We determine the branching fraction to be, in agreement with previous results. Our measurement improves the relative precision of the world average by more than a factor of two.
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We report on a search for a resonancedecaying to a pair of muons inevents in themass range, usingof data collected by the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB collider at a center of mass energy of 10.58 GeV. The analysis probes two different models ofbeyond the standard model: avector boson in themodel and a muonphilic scalar. We observe no evidence for a signal and set exclusion limits at the 90% confidence level on the products of cross section and branching fraction for these processes, ranging from 0.046 fb to 0.97 fb for themodel and from 0.055 fb to 1.3 fb for the muonphilic scalar model. For masses below, the corresponding constraints on the couplings of these processes to the standard model range from 0.0008 to 0.039 for themodel and from 0.0018 to 0.040 for the muonphilic scalar model. These are the first constraints on the muonphilic scalar from a dedicated search.
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We measure the tau-to-light-lepton ratio of inclusive-meson branching fractions, whereindicates an electron or muon, and thereby test the universality of charged-current weak interactions. We select events that have one fully reconstructedmeson and a charged lepton candidate fromof electron-positron collision data collected with the Belle II detector. We find, in agreement with standard-model expectations. This is the first direct measurement of.
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We report a measurement of decay-time-dependent charge-parity () asymmetries indecays. We usepairs collected at theresonance with the Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB asymmetric-energy electron-positron collider. We reconstruct 220 signal events and extract the-violating parametersandfrom a fit to the distribution of the decay-time difference between the twomesons. The resulting confidence region is consistent with previous measurements inanddecays and with predictions based on the standard model.
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We search for the rare decayin asample of electron-positron collisions at theresonance collected with the Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB collider. We use the inclusive properties of the accompanyingmeson inevents to suppress background from other decays of the signalcandidate and light-quark pair production. We validate the measurement with an auxiliary analysis based on a conventional hadronic reconstruction of the accompanyingmeson. For background suppression, we exploit distinct signal features using machine learning methods tuned with simulated data. The signal-reconstruction efficiency and background suppression are validated through various control channels. The branching fraction is extracted in a maximum likelihood fit. Our inclusive and hadronic analyses yield consistent results for thebranching fraction ofand, respectively. Combining the results, we determine the branching fraction of the decayto be, providing the first evidence for this decay at 3.5 standard deviations. The combined result is 2.7 standard deviations above the standard model expectation.
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B ± → DK ± decays followed byD decaying to theCP -even final stateK +K − and CP-odd final state , where$$ {K}_S^0{\pi}^0 $$ D is an admixture ofD 0and states. These decays are sensitive to the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa unitarity-triangle angle$$ {\overline{D}}^0 $$ ϕ 3. The results are based on a combined analysis of the final data set of 772× 106 pairs collected by the Belle experiment and a data set of 198$$ B\overline{B} $$ × 106 pairs collected by the Belle II experiment, both in electron-positron collisions at the Υ(4$$ B\overline{B} $$ S ) resonance. We measure the CP asymmetries to be$$ \mathcal{A} $$ CP += (+12.5± 5.8± 1.4)% and$$ \mathcal{A} $$ CP− = (− 16.7± 5.7± 0.6)%, and the ratios of branching fractions to be$$ \mathcal{R} $$ CP += 1.164± 0.081± 0.036 and$$ \mathcal{R} $$ CP− = 1.151± 0.074± 0.019. The first contribution to the uncertainties is statistical, and the second is systematic. The asymmetries$$ \mathcal{A} $$ CP +and$$ \mathcal{A} $$ CP− have similar magnitudes and opposite signs; their difference corresponds to 3.5 standard deviations. From these values we calculate 68.3% confidence intervals of (8.5° <ϕ 3< 16.5° ) or (84.5° <ϕ 3< 95.5° ) or (163.3° <ϕ 3< 171.5° ) and 0.321 <r B < 0.465.Free, publicly-accessible full text available May 1, 2025