@article{ace4bc0b54e34cdfab084e59ac193de9,
title = "Search for the decay mode B0 →pp p{\= } p{\= }",
abstract = "A search is presented for the four-body decay B0→pp{\=p}{\=p} in a sample of 471 million B{\=B} pairs collected with the BABAR detector, operated at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. The center-of-mass energy is 10.58 GeV. From a fit to the distribution of the energy-substituted mass mES, the branching fraction B(B0→pp{\=p}{\=p})=(1.1±0.5±0.2)×10-7 is extracted, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. The significance of the signal, including the systematic uncertainty, is 2.9 standard deviations. The upper limit on the branching fraction is determined to be 2.0×10-7 at 90% confidence level.",
author = "{<i>B<span class={"}sc{"}>a</span>B<span class={"}sc{"}>ar</span></i> Collaboration} and Lees, {J. P.} and V. Poireau and V. Tisserand and E. Grauges and A. Palano and G. Eigen and Brown, {D. N.} and Kolomensky, {Yu G.} and M. Fritsch and H. Koch and T. Schroeder and C. Hearty and Mattison, {T. S.} and McKenna, {J. A.} and So, {R. Y.} and Blinov, {V. E.} and Buzykaev, {A. R.} and Druzhinin, {V. P.} and Golubev, {V. B.} and Kozyrev, {E. A.} and Kravchenko, {E. A.} and Onuchin, {A. P.} and Serednyakov, {S. I.} and Skovpen, {Yu I.} and Solodov, {E. P.} and Todyshev, {K. Yu} and Lankford, {A. J.} and Gary, {J. W.} and O. Long and Eisner, {A. M.} and Lockman, {W. S.} and {Panduro Vazquez}, W. and Chao, {D. S.} and Cheng, {C. H.} and B. Echenard and Flood, {K. T.} and Hitlin, {D. G.} and J. Kim and Y. Li and Miyashita, {T. S.} and P. Ongmongkolkul and Porter, {F. C.} and M. R{\"o}hrken and Z. Huard and Meadows, {B. T.} and Pushpawela, {B. G.} and Sokoloff, {M. D.} and L. Sun and Smith, {J. G.} and Wagner, {S. R.}",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful for the extraordinary contributions of our PEP-II colleagues in achieving the excellent luminosity and machine conditions that have made this work possible. The success of this project also relies critically on the expertise and dedication of the computing organizations that support BABAR. The collaborating institutions wish to thank SLAC for its support and the kind hospitality extended to them. This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada), the Commissariat {\`a} l{\textquoteright}Energie Atomique and Institut National de Physique Nucl{\'e}aire et de Physique des Particules (France), the Bundesministerium f{\"u}r Bildung und Forschung and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany), the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy), the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (The Netherlands), the Research Council of Norway, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Ministerio de Econom{\'i}a y Competitividad (Spain), the Science and Technology Facilities Council (United Kingdom), and the Binational Science Foundation (U.S.-Israel). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie IEF program (European Union) and the A. P. Sloan Foundation (USA). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.",
year = "2018",
month = oct,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.98.071102",
language = "English",
volume = "98",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "AMER PHYSICAL SOC",
number = "7",
}