H. Sahoo

Observation of Transverse Polarization Asymmetries of Charged Pion Pairs in e+e- Annihilation near √[s]= 10.58 GeV

The interference fragmentation function translates the fragmentation of a quark with a transverse projection of the spin into an azimuthal asymmetry of two final-state hadrons. In e(+)e(-) annihilation the product of two interference fragmentation functions is measured. We report nonzero asymmetries for pairs of charge-ordered π(+)π(-) pairs, which indicate a significant interference fragmentation function in this channel. The results are obtained from a 672 fb(-1) data sample that contains 711 × 10(6) π(+)π(-) pairs and was collected at and near the Υ(4S) resonance, with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e(+)e(-) collider.

Search for CP violation in tau -> K^0_S pi nu_tau decays at Belle

We report on a search for CP violation in tau(+/-) -> K-S(0)pi(+/-)nu(tau) decays using a data sample of 699 fb(-1) collected by the Belle experiment at the KEKB electron-positron asymmetric-energy collider. The CP asymmetry is measured in four bins of the invariant mass of the K-S(0)pi(+/-) system and found to be compatible with zero with a precision of O(10(-3)) in each mass bin. Limits for the CP violation parameter Im(eta(S)) are given at the 90% confidence level. These limits are |Im(eta(S))| < 0.026 or better, depending on the parametrization used to describe the hadronic form factors, and improve upon previous limits by 1 order of magnitude.

First Measurement of Inclusive B{yields}X{sub s{eta}} Decays

We report a first measurement of inclusive B→Xsη decays, where Xs is a charmless state with unit strangeness. The measurement is based on a pseudoinclusive reconstruction technique and uses a sample of 657×10(6)BB pairs accumulated with the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- collider. For MXs < 2.6 GeV/c2, we measure a branching fraction of [26.1±3.0(stat)-2.1+1.9(syst)-7.1+4.0(model)]×10(-5) and a direct CP asymmetry of ACP=-0.13±0.04-0.03+0.02. Over half of the signal occurs in the range MXs > 1.8 GeV/c2.

Measurement of the Time-Dependent CP Asymmetries in B{sup 0}{yields}K{sub S}{sup 0}{rho}{sup 0}{gamma} Decays

We report the first measurement of time-dependent CP asymmetry in B0→KS0ρ0γ decays based on 657×106 BB pairs collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy collider. We measure the CP-violating parameter SKS0ρ0γ=0.11±0.33(stat)-0.09+0.05(syst) from a signal of 212±17 events. We also obtain the effective direct CP-violating parameter Aeff=0.05±0.18(stat)±0.06(syst) for mKS0π+π-<1.8GeV/c2 and 0.6GeV/c2<mπ+π-<0.9GeV/c2.