Rates, polarizations, and asymmetries in charmless vector-vector B meson decays

Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Oct 24;91(17):171802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.171802. Epub 2003 Oct 23.

Abstract

With a sample of approximately 89 x 10(6) B(-)B pairs collected with the BABAR detector, we perform a search for B meson decays into pairs of charmless vector mesons (phi, rho, and K*). We measure the branching fractions, determine the degree of longitudinal polarization, and search for CP violation asymmetries in the processes B+-->phiK(*+), B0-->phiK(*0), B+-->rho(0)K(*+), and B+-->rho(0)rho(+). We also set an upper limit on the branching fraction for the decay B0-->rho(0)rho(0).