CP asymmetry in $B^- \to \pi^+ \pi^- K^-$ and $B^- \to K^+ K^- K^-$ decays

Abstract

The near equality between the measured value for $|V_{ub}|/|V_{cb}|$ and its unitarity triangle lower bound from $\sin 2\beta$ measurements suggests that $\alpha \approx 90^{\circ}$ and $\sin\gamma \approx \cos\beta = 0.91$ and a large direct CP violation in B decays would be possible. In this talk, I would like to discuss a recent analysis of the non resonant and resonant CP asymmetry for the decays $B^- \to \pi^+ \pi^- K^-$ and $B^- \to K^+ K^- K^-$ where the CP asymmetry at the $\chi_{c0}$ resonance comes from the interference of the non resonant amplitude with the resonant amplitude $B^\pm \to \chi_{c0} K^\pm$ $\to\pi^+ \pi^- K^\pm$ and $B^\pm \to \chi_{c0} K^\pm$ $\to K^+ K^- K^\pm$. Using the the Babar and Belle measurements of the $B^-\to \chi_{c0} K^-$ branching ratios, we predict that partial width asymmetry at the $\chi_{c0}$ resonance could reach 10% for the $B^- \to \pi^+ \pi^- K^-$ decay and 16% for the $B^- \to K^+ K^- K^-$decay.Comment: Invited talk at the Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, IPPP Durham, April 2003 (eConf C0304052). 4 pages LaTeX, 5 eps figure