application/xmlThe riddle of polarization in [formula omitted] transitionsP. ColangeloF. De FazioT.N. PhamPhysics Letters B 597 (2004) 291-298. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2004.07.024journalPhysics Letters BCopyright © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Elsevier B.V.0370-26935973-416 September 20042004-09-16291-29829129810.1016/j.physletb.2004.07.024http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2004.07.024doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2004.07.024http://vtw.elsevier.com/data/voc/oa/OpenAccessStatus#Full2014-01-01T00:14:32ZSCOAP3 - Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physicshttp://vtw.elsevier.com/data/voc/oa/SponsorType#FundingBodyhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/JournalsS300.3PLB21226S0370-2693(04)01048-210.1016/j.physletb.2004.07.024Elsevier B.V.PhenomenologyFig. 1Ratios of BK* form factors: V(Mϕ2)/A1(Mϕ2) versus A2(Mϕ2)/A1(Mϕ2). The continuous lines correspond to the (one, two and three-σ) regions of the Belle data in Table 2 (a) and of the average of Belle and BaBar data (b) for ΓL/Γ and Γ/Γ in B0ϕK*0. The points correspond to different form factor models: QCDSR [13] (dot), LCSR [14] (triangle), MS [15] (square), BSW [16] (diamond).Fig. 2Rescattering diagrams contributing to BϕK*. The box represents a weak vertex, the dots strong couplings.Fig. 3Dependence of the branching ratio and polarization fractions of B0ϕK*0 on the long distance contribution. BK* form factors computed in [13] (left) and in [14] (right) are used in the short-distance amplitude. r=0 corresponds to the absence of rescattering. The three curves in (b) correspond to ΓL/Γ (continuous curve), Γ/Γ (dashed) and Γ/Γ (dot-dashed). The horizontal lines represent the experimental result in Table 1 for the branching ratio (a) and for ΓL/Γ (b).Table 1Branching fractions of BVV decay modesModeBelle [1]BaBar [2]AverageB+ϕK*+(6.71.91.0+2.1+0.7)×106(12.72.0+2.2±1.1)×106(9.5±1.7)×10−6B0ϕK*0(10.01.50.8+1.6+0.7)×106(11.2±1.3±0.8)×106(10.7±1.2)×10−6ModeBelle [3]BaBar [2,4]AverageB+ρ0K*+(10.62.6+3.0±2.4)×106B+ρ0ρ+(31.7±7.16.7+3.8)×106(22.55.4+5.7±5.8)×106(26.2±6.2)×10−6B0ρ+ρ(2566+7+5)×106Table 2Polarization fractions in BVV transitions. The BaBar results reported in brakets are preliminary data quoted in Ref. [5]ModePol. fractionBelle [1]BaBar [2]AverageB+ϕK*+ΓL/Γ0.46±0.12±0.03B0ϕK*0ΓL/Γ0.43±0.09±0.040.65±0.07±0.020.58±0.06(0.52±0.07±0.02)B0ϕK*0Γ/Γ0.41±0.10±0.02(0.27±0.07±0.02)ModePol. fractionBelle [3]BaBar [2,4]AverageB+ρ0K*+ΓL/Γ0.960.15+0.04±0.04B+ρ0ρ+ΓL/Γ0.95±0.11±0.020.970.07+0.03±0.040.96±0.07B0ρ+ρΓL/Γ0.980.08+0.02±0.03The riddle of polarization in BVV transitionsP.Colangeloapietro.colangelo@billie.ba.infn.itF.De FazioaT.N.PhambaIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, ItalybCentre de Physique Théorique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7644, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau cedex, FranceEditor: P.V. LandshoffAbstractMeasurements of polarization fractions in BVV transitions, with V a light vector meson, show that the longitudinal amplitude dominates in B0ρ+ρ, B+ρ+ρ0, and B+ρ0K*+ decays and not in the penguin induced decays B0ϕK*0, B+ϕK*+. We study the effect of rescattering mediated by charmed resonances, finding that in BϕK* it can be responsible of the suppression of the longitudinal amplitude. For the decay BρK* we find that the longitudinal fraction cannot be too large without invoking new effects.PACS13.25.Hw1IntroductionAn important result obtained by Belle and BaBar Collaborations is the measurement of the decay widths and of the polarization fractions of several B decays to two light vector mesons [1–4]. The branching fractions measured by the two Collaborations are collected in Table 1 together with the averages. Together with these data one should collect the upper bound B(B0ρ0ρ0)2.1×106 from BaBar [2]. Through the analysis of angular distributions, the polarization fractions of the final states have been measured as reported in Table 2. In the decay modes B0ρ+ρ and B+ρ0ρ+,ρ0K*+ the final states are essentially in longitudinal configuration, with a larger uncertainty for B+ρ0K*+; on the contrary, in both the observed BϕK* transitions the longitudinal amplitude does not dominate, providing nearly 50% of the rate.There are reasons to expect that the light VV final state should be mainly longitudinally polarized, see, e.g., the discussion in [6]. In the following we summarize the arguments, which essentially rely on factorization and on the infinite heavy quark mass limit. Invoking such arguments, the deviation observed in BϕK* could be interpreted as a signal of new physics [7]. A more orthodox interpretation [6], in the framework of QCD improved factorization [8], relies on the observation that (logarithmically divergent) annihilation diagrams can modify the polarization amplitudes in BϕK*, producing fractions in agreement with observation.In this Letter we wish to address another effect that potentially changes the result in the penguin induced BϕK* decay without affecting the observed Bρρ transition: rescattering of intermediate charm states. Such effects, studied long ago in BKπ transitions [9] and investigated recently in other BPP and VP decays [10] as well as in factorization forbidden B transitions to charmonium final states [11], can invalidate the arguments on the basis of which the dominance of the longitudinal configuration is argued.We discuss factorization and its consequences in Section 2 and the analysis of rescattering effects for B0ϕK*0 in Section 3. At the end we discuss a few consequences.2Polarization in factorization-based approachesThe decay B0ϕK*0 is described by the amplitude (1)A(B0(p)ϕ(q,ε)K*0(p,η))=A0ε*η*+A2(ε*p)(η*q)+iA1εαβγδεα*ηβ*pγpδ with ε(q,λ) and η(p,λ) the ϕ and K* polarization vectors, respectively, with λ=0,±1 the three helicities. Since the decaying B meson is spinless, the final vector mesons share the same helicity. A0 and A2 are associated to the S- and D-wave decay, respectively, and A1 to the P-wave transition.The three helicity amplitudes AL and A± can be written in terms of A0,1,2: (2)AL=1MϕMK*[(ppMK*2)A0+MB2|p|2A2],A±=A0MB|p|A1, in the transversity basis, the transverse amplitudes (3)A=A++A2=2A0,A=A+A2=2MB|p|A1 can also be defined, with |p|=λ12(MB2,MK*2,Mϕ2)/2MB (λ the triangular function) the common ϕ and K* three-momentum in the rest frame of the decaying B-meson. In terms of such amplitudes the expression of the decay rate is simply: (4)Γ=|p|8πMB2(|AL|2+|A|2+|A|2), while the three polarization fractions are given by (5)fL=ΓLΓ=|AL|2|AL|2+|A|2+|A|2,f=ΓΓ=|A|2|AL|2+|A|2+|A|2,f=ΓΓ=|A|2|AL|2+|A|2+|A|2.In order to compute the amplitude Eq. (1), we consider the effective weak Hamiltonian inducing the b¯s¯ss¯ transitions, which can be written as (6)HW=GF2(Vtb*Vts)(i=310ciOi+c7γO7γ+c8gO8g) with the operators (7)O3=(b¯αsα)VAq(q¯βqβ)VA,O4=(b¯βsα)VAq(q¯αqβ)VA,O5=(b¯αsα)VAq(q¯βqβ)V+A,O6=(b¯βsα)VAq(q¯αqβ)V+A,O7=32(b¯αsα)VAqeq(q¯βqβ)V+A,O8=32(b¯βsα)VAqeq(q¯αqβ)V+A,O9=32(b¯αsα)VAqeq(q¯βqβ)VA,O10=32(b¯βsα)VAqeq(q¯αqβ)VA (α,β are colour indices and (q¯q)VA=q¯γμ(1γ5)q). O36 are gluon penguin operators, O710 electroweak penguin operators, O7γ=e8π2mbb¯σμν(1+γ5)sFμν and O8g=g8π2mbb¯σμν(1+γ5)TasGμνa, with Fμν and Gμνa the electromagnetic and the gluon field strength, respectively; ci,7γ,8g(μ) are the Wilson coefficients.The amplitude A(B0ϕK*0) obtained from (6) admits a factorized form (8)Afact(B0ϕK*0)=GF2(Vtb*Vts)aWK*0(p,η)|(b¯s)VA|B0(p)×ϕ(q,ε)|(s¯s)V|0 with aW=a3+a4+a512(a7+a9+a10), ai=ci+ci+1Nc for i=3,5,7,9 and ai=ci+ci1Nc for i=4,10 (Nc is the number of colours). This formula presents the drawbacks of naive factorization, namely there is not a compensation of the scale dependence between Wilson coefficients and operator matrix elements. However, it allows us to immediately write down the polarization fractions, once the BK* matrix element has been expressed in terms of form factors,11For the BK* and BD* matrix elements Eqs. (10) and (18) we use the same phase convention. and the ϕ meson leptonic constant has been introduced: (9)ϕ(q,ε)|s¯γμs|0=fϕMϕε*μ,(10)K*(p,η)|b¯γμ(1γ5)s|B(p)=iεμνρση*νpρpσ2VMB+MK*[(MB+MK*)A1ημ*A2MB+MK*(η*p)(p+p)μ2MK*(A3A0)q2(η*p)qμ], with the form factors V,A1,A2,A3 and A0 functions of q2. From (8)–(10) it is easy to write down the polarization amplitudes and check that, for large values of MB, (11)ALMB3[(A1(Mϕ2)A2(Mϕ2))+MK*MB(A1(Mϕ2)+A2(Mϕ2))],AMBA1(Mϕ2),AMBV(Mϕ2), expressions which determine the behaviour of the three amplitudes once the parametric dependence on the heavy quark mass of the form factors close to the maximum recoil point has been established. In the limit MB and for q2=0 such a dependence has been investigated [12] with the result that the three form factors V, A1 and A2 should be equal: A2/A1=V/A1=1. One therefore expects: (12)ΓLΓ1+O(1MB2),ΓΓ1 regardless, in this scheme, of the Wilson and CKM coefficients. Assuming generalized factorization, with the substitution of the Wilson coefficients ai with effective parameters aieff, it is eventually possible to reconcile the branching ratio with the experimental measurement, but not to modify the polarization fractions, since the dependence on the ai cancels out in the ratios. Therefore, in order to explain the small ratio ΓL/Γ within the standard model one has to look either at the finite mass corrections, or at effects beyond factorization.For finite heavy quark mass, one can compare the experimental result for the polarization fractions in B0ϕK*0 decays (Table 2) with the predictions of various form factor models [13–16]. As shown in Fig. 1, in many models the ratios A2/A1 and V/A1 deviate from the asymptotic prediction, suggesting that the regime of finite MB does not fully coincide with the asymptotic regime. In one case there is a marginal agreement between the form factor model and data. However, the indication of effects beyond naive and generalized factorization is clear.3Rescattering effectsIf one considers the possibility of rescattering effects, there are other terms in the effective weak Hamiltonian that can induce the transition B0ϕK*0. Processes that should be the most relevant ones are b¯cc¯s¯ss¯s¯. Such processes can give sizeable contribution to the penguin amplitudes obtained from (6) since they involve Wilson coefficients of O(1) (that multiply current–current quark operators), while the Wilson coefficients in penguin b¯s¯ss¯ operators are smaller (O(102)). On the other hand, there is not a CKM suppression in such processes, since |Vtb*Vts| and |Vcb*Vcs| are nearly equal. An example of processes of this type is depicted in Fig. 2, where a sample of intermediate charm mesons is shown. As far as the polarization of the final state is concerned, one has to notice that different intermediate states in Fig. 2 contribute to different polarization amplitudes, so that the longitudinal as well as the transverse amplitudes can be modified. For example, considering only intermediate pseudoscalar and vector charmed mesons coming from the B meson vertex, there are eight diagrams of the kind depicted in Fig. 2. Intermediate states comprising one vector and one pseudoscalar meson (four diagrams) only contribute to the P-wave transition and therefore to the amplitude A. On the other hand, intermediate states comprising two pseudoscalar mesons (two diagrams) only contribute to AL and A, while intermediate states with two vector mesons (2 diagrams) contribute to the three polarization amplitudes AL, A and A.In order to estimate the contribution of diagrams of the type in Fig. 2 we can use a formalism that accounts for the heavy quark spin-flavour symmetries in hadrons containing a single heavy quark [17] and for the so-called hidden gauge symmetry to describe their interaction with light vector mesons [18]. As well known, in the heavy quark limit, due to the decoupling of the heavy quark spin sQ from the light degrees of freedom total angular momentum s, it is possible to classify hadrons with a single heavy quark Q in terms of s. Mesons can be collected in doublets the members of which only differ for the relative orientation of sQ and s[17]. The doublets with JP=(0,1) corresponding to sP=12 can be described by the effective fields (13)Ha=(1+)2[Paμ*γμPaγ5], where v is the meson four-velocity and a is a light quark flavour index. The field H¯a is defined as H¯a=γ0Haγ0; all the heavy field operators contain a factor MH and have dimension 3/2.It is possible to formulate an effective Lagrange density for the low energy interactions of heavy mesons with light vector mesons [18]. The interaction term of such a Lagrangian reads as (14)LHHV=iβTr{Hb(vμρμ)baH¯a}+iλTr{Hb(σμνFμν)baH¯a}. Light vector mesons are included in (14) through the fields ρ=igV2ρˆ representing the low-lying vector octet: (15)ρˆ=(12ρ0+16ω8ρ+K*+ρ12ρ0+16ω8K*0K*K¯*023ω8) with Fμν=μρννρμ+[ρμ,ρν]. Invoking the mixing ω8ω0 one gets the interaction term involving ϕ. The interactions of heavy mesons with the light vector mesons are thus governed, in the heavy quark limit, by two couplings β and λ. From light cone QCD sum rules [19] as well as from vector mesons dominance arguments [10] one estimates β0.9 and λ0.56GeV1, while gV is fixed to gV=5.6 by the KSRF relation [20].Using (14) it is easy to work out the matrix elements Ds(*)D(*)K* appearing in one of the vertices in Fig. 2: (16)Ds(pDp)K*0(p,η)|D(pD=MDvD)=β˜MDMDs(vDη*),Ds*(pDp,ε1)K*0(p,η)|D(pD)=iλ˜MDMDs*εανμβvDαην*pμε1β*,Ds(pDp)K*0(p,η)|D*(pD,η1)=iλ˜MD*MDsεανμβvDαην*pμη1β,Ds*(pDp,ε1)K*0(p,η)|D*(pD,η1)=β˜MD*MDs*(vDη*)(ε1*η1)+λ˜MD*MDs*×[(η1η*)(ε1*p)(η1p)(ε1*η*)], where β˜=2βgV2 and λ˜=4λgV2. Matrix elements involving ϕ in the other vertex in Fig. 2 are obtained analogously.As for the weak amplitude B0Ds(*)+D(*), since there is empirical evidence that factorization reproduces the main experimental findings [21], we write it as (17)Ds(*)+D(*)|HW|B=GF2VcbVcs*a1D(*)|(VA)μ|B0×Ds(*)+|(VA)μ|0 with a11. In the heavy quark limit the matrix elements in (17) involve the Isgur–Wise function [17]: (18)D(v)|Vμ|B0(v)=MBMDξ(vv)(v+v)μ,D*(v,ε)|Vμ|B0(v)=iMBMD*ξ(vv)εβ*ɛαβγμvαvγ,D*(v,ε)|Aμ|B0(v)=MBMD*ξ(vv)εβ*×[(1+vv)gβμvβvμ],v and v being B and D(*) four-velocities, ε the D* polarization vector and ξ(vv) the Isgur–Wise form factor. As for the D(*) current-vacuum matrix elements defined as (19)0|q¯aγμγ5c|Da(v)=fDaMDavμ,0|q¯aγμc|Da*(v,ε)=fDa*MDa*εμ, they can be parameterized in the heavy quark limit in terms of a single quantity fDa=fDa*.Now, the estimate of the absorptive part of the rescattering diagrams in Fig. 2(20)ImAresc=λ12(MB2,MDs(*)2,MD(*)2)32πMB21+1dzA(B0Ds(*)+D(*))A(Ds(*)+D(*)ϕK*0) can be carried out. The integration variable z=cosθ is related to the angle between the three-momenta of ϕ and of the emitted Ds(*) from B vertex in Fig. 2. We use |Vcb|=0.042, |Vcs|=0.974 (the central values reported by the Particle Data Group [22]), fDs*=fDs=240 MeV[23] and ξ(y)=(21+y)2.The couplings in (16) do not account for the off-shellness of the exchanged Ds(*) mesons in Fig. 2. One can introduce form factors: (21)gi(t)=gi0F(t), to account for the t-dependence of the couplings (the vertices in rescattering diagrams cannot be considered point-like since they do not involve elementary particles), gi0 being the on-shell couplings. However, the form factors are unknown. We use (22)F(t)=Λ2MDs*2Λ2t to satisfy QCD counting rules. We could vary the value of Λ, considering the uncertainty from the form factor F(t) in the final numerical result. Instead, since the relative sign of rescattering and factorized amplitude is also unknown, as well as the role of diagrams involving excitations and the continuum, we fix Λ=2.3 GeV and analyze the sum (23)A=Afact+rAresc varying the parameter r and approximating the long distance amplitude with Eq. (20).We compute the short-distance factorized amplitude using the BK* form factors appearing in two extreme cases in Fig. 1, the model [13] and the model [14], with Wilson coefficients a3=48×104, a4=(43977i)×104, a5=45×104, a7=(0.51.3i)×104, a9=(941.3i)×104 and a10=(140.4i)×104, as computed in [24] for Nc=3.The result is depicted in Fig. 3. For the model [13], a contribution of the rescattering amplitude is in order to obtain the measured BϕK* branching fraction. Of the two possible values of the parameter r which reproduce the experimental rate, r0.08 and r0.3, the former allows us to simultaneously obtain a small longitudinal polarization fraction: ΓL/Γ0.55, compatible with the measurements. The transverse polarization fractions turn out Γ/Γ0.30 and Γ/Γ0.15. They are both consistent with measurement, but with the hierarchy Γ/Γ>Γ/Γ.If we use the form factors in [14], for r=0 the predicted rate exceeds the experimental datum, so that the rescattering contribution should be weighted by a negative r to reconcile the branching fraction; as depicted in Fig. 3, in such a region (r0.05) the longitudinal fraction increases. However, this conclusion crucially depends on the value of the Wilson coefficients a3a10 used as an input in the evaluation of the short-distance amplitude. As shown in [24], for example, a4 varies from 40272i to 51187i changing Nc from 2 to ∞. For a smaller value of the sum of Wilson coefficients, both the sets of form factors would require a similar long-distance contribution, with the effect of reducing the longitudinal fraction.A feature of both the sets of data is that, in the region of r where the experimental rate is reproduced, Γ is larger or similar to Γ. The ratio ΓΓ is sensitive to operators of different chirality which would appear in the effective Hamiltonian in extensions of the Standard Model [6].4DiscussionThe conclusion of this analysis is that FSI effects can modify the helicity amplitudes in penguin dominated processes. The numerical result depends on the interplay between Wilson coefficients, form factors and rescattering amplitude, and we have shown that the experimental observation can be reproduced. At the same time, the rescattering effects we have considered are too small to affect the observed Bρρ decays. As a matter of fact, while the CKM factors in the tree diagram in B0ρ+ρ transition (Vub*Vud) have similar size to the CKM factor in the FSI diagram in Fig. 2 (Vcb*Vcd), the Wilson coefficient in current–current transition is O(1). We can expect to observe FSI effects in colour-suppressed and other penguin induced BVV decays, such as B0ρ0K*0, B0ωK*0, and B0ρ0ρ0, B0ρ0ω, BρK¯*0, BK*K*0.Let us consider B+ρ0K*+. On the basis of general arguments, we cannot assess the role of FSI without an explicit calculation, due to the CKM suppression of the factorized amplitude. The determination of the rescattering amplitude, similar to that in Fig. 2, can be done following the same method discussed above, obtaining ΓL/Γ0.7, i.e., smaller (even though compatible within 2σ) than the measurement in Table 2.Therefore, in our approach we can accommodate a small ΓL for BϕK* at the prize of having a smaller value of ΓL for BρK*, which is not currently excluded due to the uncertainty in the data for this mode. It is interesting to notice that an analogous prediction is done in QCD improved factorization [6], where one gets ΓLΓ(BρK*)<ΓLΓ(BϕK*). More precise measurements are in order to suggest a solution to this polarization riddle. 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