Search for B+-->D*+pi0 decay

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Jul 25;101(4):041601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.041601. Epub 2008 Jul 25.

Abstract

We report on a search for the doubly Cabibbo suppressed decay B+-->D*+pi0, based on a data sample of 657x10(6) BB pairs collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. We find no significant signal and set an upper limit of B(B+-->D*+pi0)<3.6x10(-6) at the 90% confidence level. This limit can be used to constrain the ratio between suppressed and favored B-->D*pi decay amplitudes, r<0.051, at the 90% confidence level.