Improved Measurements of Color-Suppressed Decays B0bar -> D0 pi0, D0 eta, D0 omega, D*0 pi0, D*0 eta and D*0 omega

Abstract

We present improved measurements of the branching fractions of the color-suppressed decays $\bar{B}^0 \to D^{(*)0} h^{0}$ where $h^{0}$ represents a light neutral meson $\pi^{0}$, $\eta$ or $\omega$. The measurements are based on a data sample of 140 $fb^{-1}$, collected at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB energy-asymmetric $e^+e^-$ collider, corresponding to seven times the luminosity of the previous Belle measurements. All the measured branching fractions fall in the range 1.4-2.4 $\times 10^{-4}$, which is significantly higher than theoretical predictions based on naive factorization.