M. Iwabuchi

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 B{sup 0}{yields}J/{psi}{phi} decays

We report a search for the decay B{sup 0}{yields}J/{psi}{phi}, using a sample of 657x10{sup 6} BB pairs collected with the Belle detector at the {upsilon}(4S) resonance. No statistically significant signal is found and an upper limit for the branching fraction is determined to be B(B{sup 0}{yields}J/{psi}{phi})<9.4x10{sup -7} at 90% confidence level.We report a search for the decay B0→J/ψ, using a sample of 657×106 BB pairs collected with the Belle detector at the Υ(4S) resonance. No statistically significant signal is found and an upper limit for the branching fraction is determined to be B(B0→J/ψ)<9.4×10-7 at 90% confidence level.