Prafulla Kumar Behera

Bio: Prafulla Kumar Behera is an academic researcher from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The author has contributed to research in topics: Large Hadron Collider & Branching fraction. The author has an hindex of 109, co-authored 1204 publications receiving 65248 citations. Previous affiliations of Prafulla Kumar Behera include CERN & Aomori University.

Search for the highly suppressed decays B-→K +π-π- and B-→K -K-π+

Abstract: We report a search for the decays B- -> K+pi(-)pi(-) and B- -> K-K-pi(+), which are highly suppressed in the standard model. Using a sample of (467 +/- 5) x 10(6) B (B) over bar pairs collected with the BABAR detector, we do not see any evidence of these decays and determine 90% confidence level upper limits of B(B- -> K+pi(-)pi(-)) and K-K-pi(+)) and < 1.6 x 10(-7) on the corresponding branching fractions, including systematic uncertainties.

Branching fraction measurements of B+→ρ+γ, B0→ρ0γ, and B0→ωγ

Abstract: The authors present a study of the decays B{sup +} {yields} {rho}{sup +}{gamma}, B{sup 0} {yields} {rho}{sup 0}{gamma}, and B{sup 0} {yields} {omega}{gamma}. The analysis is based on data containing 347 million B{bar B} events recorded with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B factory. They measure the branching fractions {Beta}(B{sup +} {yields} {rho}{sup +}{gamma}) = (1.10{sub -0.33}{sup +0.37} {+-} 0.09) x 10{sup -6} and {Beta}(B{sup 0} {yields} {rho}{sup 0}{gamma}) = (0.79{sub -0.20}{sup +0.22} {+-} 0.06) x 10{sup -6}, and set a 90% C.L. upper limit {Beta}(B{sup 0} {yields} {omega}{gamma}) < 0.78 x 10{sup -6}. They also measure the isospin-averaged branching fraction {Beta}[B {yields} ({rho}/{omega}){gamma}] = (1.25{sub -0.24}{sup +0.25} {+-} 0.09) x 10{sup -6}, from which they determine |V{sub td}/V{sub ts}| = 0.200{sub -0.020}{sup +0.021} {+-} 0.015, where the first uncertainty is experimental and the second is theoretical.

Search for charmless two-body baryonic decays of B mesons

Abstract: We report the results of a search for the rare baryonic decays ${B}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}p\overline{p},$ $\ensuremath{\Lambda}\overline{\ensuremath{\Lambda}},$ and ${B}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}p\overline{\ensuremath{\Lambda}}.$ The analysis is based on a data set of $31.7\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{6}B\overline{B}$ events collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB ${e}^{+}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ collider. No statistically significant signals are found, and we set branching fraction upper limits $\mathcal{B}{(B}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}p\overline{p})l1.2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}6},$ $\mathcal{B}{(B}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\Lambda}\overline{\ensuremath{\Lambda}})l1.0\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}6},$ and $\mathcal{B}{(B}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}p\overline{\ensuremath{\Lambda}})l2.2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}6}$ at the 90% confidence level.

Measurement of cos 2β in B0→D(*)h0 decays with a time-dependent dalitz plot analysis of D→Ks0π+π

Abstract: We study the time-dependent Dalitz plot of D-->K_{S};{0}pi;{+}pi;{-} in B;{0}-->D;{(*)}h;{0} decays, where h;{0} is a pi;{0}, eta, eta;{'}, or omega meson and D;{*}-->Dpi;{0}, using a data sample of 383x10;{6} Upsilon(4S)-->BB[over ] decays collected with the BABAR detector. We determine cos2beta=0.42+/-0.49+/-0.09+/-0.13, sin2beta=0.29+/-0.34+/-0.03+/-0.05, and |lambda|=1.01+/-0.08+/-0.02, where the first error is statistical, the second is the experimental systematic uncertainty, and the third, where given, is the Dalitz model uncertainty. Assuming the world average value for sin2beta and |lambda|=1, cos2beta>0 is preferred over cos2beta<0 at 86% confidence level.

I and i

Abstract: There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality. Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

Phd by thesis

Abstract: Deposits of clastic carbonate-dominated (calciclastic) sedimentary slope systems in the rock record have been identified mostly as linearly-consistent carbonate apron deposits, even though most ancient clastic carbonate slope deposits fit the submarine fan systems better. Calciclastic submarine fans are consequently rarely described and are poorly understood. Subsequently, very little is known especially in mud-dominated calciclastic submarine fan systems. Presented in this study are a sedimentological core and petrographic characterisation of samples from eleven boreholes from the Lower Carboniferous of Bowland Basin (Northwest England) that reveals a >250 m thick calciturbidite complex deposited in a calciclastic submarine fan setting. Seven facies are recognised from core and thin section characterisation and are grouped into three carbonate turbidite sequences. They include: 1) Calciturbidites, comprising mostly of highto low-density, wavy-laminated bioclast-rich facies; 2) low-density densite mudstones which are characterised by planar laminated and unlaminated muddominated facies; and 3) Calcidebrites which are muddy or hyper-concentrated debrisflow deposits occurring as poorly-sorted, chaotic, mud-supported floatstones. These