Search for Charmless Hadronic Decays of B Mesons with the SLD Detector

Abstract

Based on a sample of approximately 500,000 hadronic Z0 decays accumulated between 1993 and 1998, the SLD experiment has set limits on 24 fully charged two-body and quasi two-body exclusive charmless hadronic decays of B+, B0, and B0_s mesons. The precise tracking capabilities of the SLD detector provided for the efficient reduction of combinatoric backgrounds, yielding the most precise available limits for ten of these modes.

LaTex, 11 pages, 2 figures, uses RevTeX. This version contains minor changes suggested by Phys Rev D reviewers. Previous version was the original resubmission to Physical Review D, Rapid Communications, after rejection from Physical Review Letters. The previous version incorporated a number of changes suggested by Phys. Rev. Lett. referees, including additional clarifying text and figures, as well as a consideration of the possible effects of vector polarization in vector-vector decay modes