Analysis of B ---> phi K decays in QCD factorization
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Abstract:
We analyze the decay within the framework of QCD-improved factorization. We found that although the twist-3 kaon distribution amplitude dominates the spectator interactions, it will suppress the decay rates slightly. The weak annihilation diagrams induced by penguin operators, which are formally power-suppressed by order , are chirally and logarithmically enhanced. Therefore, these annihilation contributions are not subject to helicity suppression and can be sizable. The predicted branching ratio of is in the absence of annihilation contributions and it becomes when annihilation effects are taken into account. The prediction is consistent with CLEO and BaBar data but smaller than the BELLE result.- B: hadronic decay
- Phi(1020)
- B: branching ratio
- factorization
- quantum chromodynamics
- K: wave function
- effect: higher-twist
- Feynman graph
- effect: penguin
- amplitude analysis
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