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A Review of Hadronic and Rare B Decays
We review recent experimental results on B meson decays. These include
measurements of the inclusive production of charmed and non-charmed mesons and
baryons, the reconstruction of a large number of exclusive hadronic final
states with charmed mesons, the search for exclusive hadronic final states
without charmed mesons, and the first observation of the decay B-> K* gamma
which is described by an electromagnetic penguin diagram. The theoretical
implications of these results will be considered. The figures can be obtained
in postscript format EMAIL from [email protected]: 77 pages; CLNS 93/1261, UH-511-778-93, OHSTPY-HEP-E-93-018, HEPSY
93-1
Nonleptonic Decays and Lifetimes of b-quark and c-quark Hadrons
We review recent experimental results on lifetimes and hadronic decays of
hadrons that contain and quarks. The theoretical implications of these
results are also considered. An understanding of hadronic decays of heavy
quarks is required to interpret the CP violating asymmetries in decays that
will be observed in experiments planned for the near future.Comment: 74 pages, LATEX format with 12 figures. To appear in Annual Review of
Nuclear and Particle Science, Vol. 46. Also available at
http://www-physics.mps.ohio-state.edu/~phys111/b-physics/bphysics.html and by
anonymous ftp from ftp://pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu/pub/hepex/kh A serious
typographical error on p. 8 is corrected. Other errors and typos are also
correcte
Implications for the anomaly in using a new Monte Carlo Event Generator
Recent experimental results in physics from Belle, BaBar and LHCb suggest
new physics (NP) in the weak charged-current and the
neutral-current processes. Here we focus on the charged-current case and
specifically on the decay modes with
and . The world averages of the ratios and
currently differ from the Standard Model (SM) predictions by while
recently a new anomaly has been observed in the forward-backward asymmetry
measurement, , in decay. It is
found that is around away from the SM prediction in an analysis of 2019
Belle data. In this work we explore possible solutions to the
anomaly and point out correlated NP signals in other angular observables. These
correlations between angular observables must be present in the case of beyond
the Standard Model physics. We stress the importance of type
observables that are obtained by taking the difference of the observable for
the muon and the electron mode. These quantities cancel form factor
uncertainties in the SM and allow for clean tests of NP. These intriguing
results also suggest an urgent need for improved simulation and analysis
techniques in decays. Here we also
describe a new Monte Carlo Event-generator tool based on EVTGEN that we
developed to allow simulation of the NP signatures in , which arise due to the interference between the SM and NP
amplitudes. We then discuss prospects for improved observables sensitive to NP
couplings with 1, 5, 50, and 250 ab of Belle II data, which seem to be
ideally suited for this class of measurements.Comment: 22 pages, 9 figures, Improved version of arXiv:2203.07189, which was
submitted to the US Community Summer Study on the Future of Particle Physics
(Snowmass2021), withdrawn from final proceedings. Improvements include
calculations of correlations between several observables and discussions of
prospects for NP-sensitive observables with several benchmark values of Belle
II integrated luminosit
Heavy-Quark Symmetry and the Electromagnetic Decays of Excited Charmed Strange Mesons
Heavy-hadron chiral perturbation theory (HHPT) is applied to the decays
of the even-parity charmed strange mesons, D_{s0}(2317) and D_{s1}(2460).
Heavy-quark spin symmetry predicts the branching fractions for the three
electromagnetic decays of these states to the ground states D_s and D_s^* in
terms of a single parameter. The resulting predictions for two of the branching
fractions are significantly higher than current upper limits from the CLEO
experiment. Leading corrections to the branching ratios from chiral loop
diagrams and spin-symmetry violating operators in the HHPT Lagrangian can
naturally account for this discrepancy. Finally the proposal that the
D_{s0}(2317) (D_{s1}(2460)) is a hadronic bound state of a D (D^*) meson and a
kaon is considered. Leading order predictions for electromagnetic branching
ratios in this molecular scenario are in very poor agreement with existing
data.Comment: 25 pages, 3 figure
Comment on the new resonances
We propose an explanation of the new resonances observed in decays. We suggest that the data can be explained by the mixing of
conventional p-wave excited mesons with 4-quark states. The narrow
states observed in and are primarily p-wave
states, while the predominantly 4-quark states are shifted above
threshold and should be broad. Ranges for the mixing parameter and
mass of the 4-quark state in this scenario are given. Other experimental
consequences are discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Updated references. To appear in Phys. Lett.
Prospects for Pentaquark Production at Meson Factories
Following Rosner [hep-ph/0312269], we consider B-decay production channels
for the exotic I=0 and pentaquarks that have been recently reported. We
also discuss new search channels for isovector pentaquarks, such as the
, that are generically present in chiral soliton
models but were not observed in recent experiments. Futhermore, we argue that
weak decays of charmed baryons, such as the and ,
provide another clean way of detecting exotic baryons made of light quarks
only. We also discuss discovery channels for charmed pentaquarks, such as the
isosinglet , in weak decays of bottom mesons and
baryons. Finally, we discuss prospects for inclusive production of pentaquarks
in collisions, with associated production of particles carrying the
opposite baryon number.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX; v2,v3: minor corrections, references added; v4:
minor modifications, the version published in Physics Letters
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