The Interplay of weak and strong phases and direct CP violation in charmless B meson decays

Jun, 2000
4 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 63 (2001) 054011
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present a general analysis on charmless B-meson decays BππB\to \pi\pi and πK\pi K. It is noticed that the final state interactions and inelastic rescattering effects must be significant in order to understand the consistency of the current data. By using general isospin decompositions, the isospin amplitudes and the corresponding strong phases could be extracted from a global χ2\chi^2 fit of the experimental data. We emphasize that in general there are two, rather than one, relative strong phases in the decomposition. In the assumption of two equalstrong phases as considered in the literature, the current data, especially the ones concerning Bπ0K0(±)B\to \pi^0 K^{0(\pm)}decays, will imply a large isospin amplitude a3/2c>40|a^c_{3/2}| > 40 , which is larger by a factor of five than the one from the naive factorization estimation. When two different strong phases are considered, all the isospin amplitudes can become, within the 1σ1\sigma-level, comparable with the theoretical values. We also show that the difference between the two strong phases cannot be too large and will be restricted by the most recent upper bound of Bπ0π0B\to \pi^0\pi^0 decay. In any case, the strong phases are found to be large and the branching ratio of Bπ0π0B\to \pi^0\pi^0 is likely to be enhanced by an order of magnitude in comparison with the one obtained from the naive factorization approach. Direct CP violations in all decay modes are also calculated and found to be close to the sensitivity of the present experiments.
Note:
  • 18 pages, 6 figures, Revtex, revised version to be published in PRD
  • B: hadronic decay
  • final state: (0charm)
  • pseudoscalar meson: associated production
  • CP: violation
  • amplitude analysis
  • symmetry: SU(3)
  • isospin
  • B: branching ratio
  • final-state interaction
  • statistical analysis