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We present a study of the branching fraction of the decay B-0 -> rho(0)rho(0) and the fraction of longitudinally polarized rho(0) mesons in this decay. The results are obtained from the final data sample containing 772 x 10(6) B (B) over bar pairs collected at the gamma(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e(+)e(-) collider. We find 166 +/- 59 B-0 -> rho(0)rho(0) events (including systematic uncertainties), corresponding to a branching fraction of B(B-0 -> rho(0)rho(0)) = (1.02 +/- 0.30(stat) +/- 0.15(syst)) x 10(-6) with a significance of 3.4 standard deviations and a longitudinal polarization fraction f(L) = 0.21(-0.22)(+0.18()stat) +/- 0.15(syst). We use the longitudinal polarization fraction to determine the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix angle phi(2) = (84.9 +/- 13.5)degrees through an isospin analysis in the B ->rho rho system. We furthermore find 125 +/- 41 B-0 -> f(0)rho(0) events, corresponding to B(B-0 -> f(0)rho(0)) x B(f(0) -> pi(+)pi(-)) = (0.78 +/- 0.22(stat) +/- 0.11(syst)) x 10(-6), with a significance of 3.1 standard deviations. We find no other significant contribution with the same final state, and set upper limits at 90% confidence level on the (product) branching fractions, B(B-0 -> pi(+)pi(-)pi(+)pi(-)) < 11.2 x 10(-6), B(B-0 -> rho(0)pi(+)pi(-)) < 12.0 x 10(-6), B(B-0 -> f(0)pi(+)pi(-)) x B(f(0) -> pi(+)pi(-)) < 3.0 x 10(-6) and B(B-0 -> f(0)f(0)) x B(f(0) -> pi(+)pi(-))(2) < 0.2 x 10(-6).
Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Elena Graverini, Marie Theres Christin Bachmayer, Sebastian Schulte, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Yunxuan Song, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Sonia Amina Bouchiba, Serhii Cholak, Federico Ronchetti, Anni Matilda Kauniskangas, Raphaël van Laak, Ettore Zaffaroni, Pierre Paul Louis Mayencourt, Gianluca Zunica, Abdul-Kerim Guseinov, Radoslav Marchevski, Roberto Ribatti, Andrea Merli, Dimitrios Kaminaris, Spencer Edward Collaviti
Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Elena Graverini, Marie Theres Christin Bachmayer, Sebastian Schulte, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Yunxuan Song, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Sonia Amina Bouchiba, Federico Ronchetti, Anni Matilda Kauniskangas, Raphaël van Laak, Ettore Zaffaroni, Pierre Paul Louis Mayencourt, Gianluca Zunica, Abdul-Kerim Guseinov, Radoslav Marchevski, Roberto Ribatti, Andrea Merli, Dimitrios Kaminaris, Spencer Edward Collaviti