Search for the decay B+ → K+ νν̄

Author(s): Aubert, B; Barate, R; Boutigny, D; Couderc, F; Gaillard, JM; Hicheur, A; Karyotakis, Y; Lees, JP; Tisserand, V; Zghiche, A; Palano, A; Pompili, A; Chen, JC; Qi, ND; Rong, G; Wang, P; Zhu, YS; Eigen, G; Ofte, I; Stugu, B; Abrams, GS; Borgland, AW; Breon, AB; Brown, DN; Button-Shafer, J; Cahn, RN; Charles, E; Day, CT; Gill, MS; Gritsan, AV; Groysman, Y; Jacobsen, RG; Kadel, RW; Kadyk, J; Kerth, LT; Kolomensky, YG; Kukartsev, G; Lynch, G; Mir, LM; Oddone, PJ; Orimoto, TJ; Pripstein, M; Roe, NA; Ronan, MT; Shelkov, VG; Wenzel, WA; Barrett, M; Ford, KE; Harrison, TJ; Hart, AJ; Hawkes, CM; Morgan, SE; Watson, AT; Fritsch, M; Goetzen, K; Held, T; Koch, H; Lewandowski, B; Pelizaeus, M; Steinke, M; Boyd, JT; Chevalier, N; Cottingham, WN; Kelly, MP; Latham, TE; Wilson, FF; Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T; Hearty, C; Knecht, NS; Mattison, TS; McKenna, JA; Thiessen, D; Khan, A; Kyberd, P; Teodorescu, L; Blinov, AE; Blinov, VE; Druzhinin, VP; Golubev, VB; Ivanchenko, VN; Kravchenko, EA; Onuchin, AP; Serednyakov, SI; Skovpen, YI; Solodov, EP | Abstract: We search for the rare flavor-changing neutral-current decay B+→ K+νν in a data sample of 82 fb-1collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II S-factory. Signal events are selected by examining the properties of the system recoiling against either a reconstructed hadronic or semileptonic charged-B decay. Using these two independent samples we obtain a combined limit of ℬ(B+→K+νν) ≤ 5.2 × 10-5at the 90% confidence level In addition, by selecting for pions rather than kaons, we obtain a limit of ℬ(B+→ π+νν) l 1.0 × 10-4using only the hadronic B reconstruction method. © 2005 The American Physical Society.