367 research outputs found
Combining exclusive semi-leptonic and hadronic B decays to measure |V_ub|
The Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element |V_ub| can be extracted from the
rate for the semi-leptonic decay B -> pi + l + antineutrino_l, with little
theoretical uncertainty, provided the hadronic form factor for the B -> pi
transition can be measured from some other B decay. In here, we suggest using
the decay B -> pi J\psi. This is a color suppressed decay, and it cannot be
properly described within the usual factorization approximation; we use instead
a simple and very general phenomenological model for the b d J\psi vertex. In
order to relate the hadronic form factors in the B -> pi J\psi and B -> pi + l
+ antineutrino_l decays, we use form factor relations that hold for
heavy-to-light transitions at large recoil.Comment: Latex, 7 pages, no figure
Unified approach to photo and electro-production of mesons with arbitrary spins
A new approach to identify the independent amplitudes along with their
partial wave multipole expansions, for photo and electro-production is
suggested,which is generally applicable to mesons with arbitrary spin-parity.
These amplitudes facilitate direct identification of different resonance
contributions.Comment: 11 page
Analysis of Supersymmetric Effects on B -> phi K Decays in the PQCD Approach
We study the effects of the MSSM contribution on B -> phi K decays using the
perturbative QCD approach. In this approach, strong phases can be calculated,
so that we can predict the values of CP asymmetries with the MSSM contribution.
We predict a large relative strong phase between the penguin amplitude and the
chromomagnetic penguin amplitude. If there is a new CP violating phase in the
chromomagnetic penguin amplitude, then the CP asymmetries may change
significantly from the SM prediction. We parametrize the new physics
contributions that appear in the Wilson coefficients. We maximize the new
physics parameters up to the point where it is limited by experimental
constraints. In the case of the LR insertion, we find that the direct CP
asymmetries can reach about 85% and the indirect CP asymmetry can reach about
-30%.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures, REVTeX, Minor changes, Version to appear in
Phys. Rev.
Study of pure annihilation type decays
In this work, we calculate the rare decays and in perturbative QCD approach with Sudakov resummation.
We give the branching ratio of for , which will
be tested soon in factories.
The decay has a very small branching ratio at
, due to the suppression from CKM matrix elements . It may be sensitive to new physics contributions.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figur
Constraining the CKM Parameters using CP Violation in semi-leptonic B Decays
We discuss the usefulness of the CP violating semi-leptonic asymmetry a_{SL}
not only as a signal of new physics, but also as a tool in constraining the CKM
parameters. We show that this technique could yield useful results in the first
years of running at the B factories. We present the analysis graphically in
terms of M_{12}, the dispersive part of the B-Bbar mixing amplitude. This is
complementary to the usual unitarity triangle representation and often allows a
cleaner interpretation of the data.Comment: 15 pages REVTEX, 7 figure
Charm and Bottom Semileptonic Decays
We review the present status of theoretical attempts to calculate the
semileptonic charm and bottom decays and then present a calculation of these
decays in the light--front frame at the kinematic point . This allows us
to evaluate the form factors at the same value of , even though the
allowed kinematic ranges for charm and bottom decays are very different. Also,
at this kinematic point the decay is given in terms of only one form factor
. For the ratio of the decay rates given by the E653 collaboration we
show that the determination of the ratio of the Cabibbo--Kobayashi--Maskawa
(CKM) matrix elements is consistent with that obtained from the unitarity
constraint. At present, though, the unitarity method still has greater
accuracy. Since comparisons of the semileptonic decays into and either
electrons or muons will be available soon from the E791 Fermilab experiment, we
also look at the massive muon case. We show that for a range of the
symmetry breaking is small even though the contributions of the
various helicity amplitudes becomes more complicated. For decays, the decay
at involves an extra form factor
coming from the photon contribution and so is not amenable to the same kind of
analysis, leaving only the decay as a
possibility. As the mass of the decaying particle increases we note that the
symmetry becomes badly broken at .Comment: Latex, 19 pages, two figures are attached, a minor change in the
manuscript related to thi
Branching ratios of decays in perturbative QCD approach
We study the rare decays , which can occur only via
annihilation type diagrams in the standard model. We calculate all of the four
modes, , in the framework of perturbative QCD approach
and give the branching ratios of the order about .Comment: 18 pages, 1 figure, Revte
Nonfactorizable contributions to decays
While the factorization assumption works well for many two-body nonleptonic
meson decay modes, the recent measurement of with
, and shows large deviation from this assumption. We
analyze the decays in the perturbative QCD approach based on
factorization theorem, in which both factorizable and nonfactorizable
contributions can be calculated in the same framework. Our predictions for the
Bauer-Stech-Wirbel parameters, and and and , are
consistent with the observed and branching ratios,
respectively. It is found that the large magnitude and the large
relative phase between and come from color-suppressed
nonfactorizable amplitudes. Our predictions for the , branching ratios can be confronted with
future experimental data.Comment: 25 pages with Latex, axodraw.sty, 6 figures and 5 tables, Version
published in PRD, Added new section 5 and reference
Constraining New Physics with the CDF Measurement of CP Violation in
Recently, the CDF collaboration has reported a measurement of the CP
asymmetry in the decay: . We
analyze the constraints that follow from this measurement on the size and the
phase of contributions from new physics to B-\barB mixing. Defining the
relative phase between the full amplitude and the Standard Model
contribution to be , we find a new bound: \sin2\theta_d\gsim-0.6
(-0.87) at one sigma (95% CL). Further implications for the CP asymmetry in
semileptonic B decays are discussed.Comment: 13 pages, harvmac, 3 figures; v2: a discussion of new physics effects
on tree level decays added; references added; accepted for publication in
Physical Review Letter
Possible Large Direct CP Violations in Charmless B-Decays
We discuss the perturbative QCD approach for the exclusive two body B-meson
decays to light mesons. We briefly review its ingredients and some important
theoretical issues on factorization approach. We show numerical results which
are compatible with present experimantal data for the charmless B-meson decays.
Specailly we predict the possibility of large direct CP violation effects in
and .
In the last section we investigate two methods to determine the weak phases
and from processes. We obtain bounds on
and from present experimental measurements.Comment: 18 pages, latex, 8 figures and 8 tables, typos corrected and added
more tables and references. Presented at the 3rd workshop on Higher
Luminosity B Factory, 6-7 August 2002, Kanagawa, Japan; Submitted to Phys.
Rev.
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