B decays to charmless VP final states

Journal Article · Sun Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1998 · Physical Review, D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.57.1783· OSTI ID:573918

Dighe, A S ^[1]; Gronau, M ^[2]; Rosner, J L ^[1]

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1. Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60615 (United States)
2. Theoretical Physics Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)

The CLEO Collaboration has now observed the decays B{sup +}{r_arrow}{omega}{pi}{sup +} and B{r_arrow}{omega}K{sup +} with branching ratios of (1.1{sub {minus}0.5}{sup +0.6}{plus_minus}0.2){times}10{sup {minus}5} and (1.5{sub {minus}0.6}{sup +0.7}{plus_minus}0.3){times}10{sup {minus}5}, respectively. These are the first reported decays to charmless final states involving a vector ({ital V}) and a pseudoscalar ({ital P}) meson. The implications of these decays for others of B mesons to charmless {ital VP} final states are explored. In a model-independent approach, using only flavor SU(3) symmetry, several tests are proposed for an anticipated hierarchy among different contributions to decay amplitudes. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}

• OSTI ID: 573918
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 57; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

66 PHYSICS
B MESONS
BRANCHING RATIO
DECAY AMPLITUDES
FLAVOR
PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS
SU-3 GROUPS
VECTOR MESONS
WEAK HADRONIC DECAY