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Title: Penguin-dominated B{yields}PV decays in NLO perturbative QCD

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
 [1];  [2]
  1. Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 115, Republic of China and Department of Physics, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan 701 (China)
  2. School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 (United States)

We study the penguin-dominated B{yields}PV decays, with P (V) representing a pseudoscalar (vector) meson, in the next-to-leading-order (NLO) perturbative QCD (PQCD) formalism, concentrating on the B{yields}K{phi}, {pi}K*, {rho}K, and {omega}K modes. It is found that the NLO corrections dramatically enhance the B{yields}{rho}K, {omega}K branching ratios, which were estimated to be small under the naive factorization assumption. The patterns of the direct CP asymmetries A{sub CP}(B{sup 0}{yields}{rho}{sup {+-}}K{sup {+-}}){approx_equal}A{sub CP}(B{sup {+-}}{yields}{rho}{sup 0}K{sup {+-}}) and A{sub CP}(B{sup 0}{yields}{pi}{sup {+-}}K*{sup {+-}})>A{sub CP}(B{sup {+-}}{yields}{pi}{sup 0}K*{sup {+-}}) are predicted, differing from A{sub CP}(B{sup 0}{yields}{pi}{sup {+-}}K{sup {+-}})>>A{sub CP}(B{sup {+-}}{yields}{pi}{sup 0}K{sup {+-}}). The above patterns, if confirmed by data, will support the source of strong phases from the scalar penguin annihilation in PQCD. The results for the mixing-induced CP asymmetries S{sub f} are consistent with those obtained in the literature, except that our S{sub {rho}{sup 0}}{sub K{sub S}} is as low as 0.5.

OSTI ID:
20873145
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 74, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.094020; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English