Isospin breaking in decays
Oct, 20014 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 539 (2002) 227-234
e-Print:
- hep-ph/0110078 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- CLNS-01-1756
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A calculation of the leading isospin-breaking contributions to the B→K ∗ γ decay amplitudes based on the QCD factorization approach is presented. They arise at order Λ / m b in the heavy-quark expansion and are due to annihilation contributions from 4-quark operators, the chromo-magnetic dipole operator, and charm penguins. In the Standard Model the decay rate for B 0 → K ∗0 γ is predicted to be about 10–20% larger than that for B − →K ∗− γ . Isospin-breaking effects are a sensitive probe of the penguin sector of the effective weak Hamiltonian. New Physics models in which the hierarchy of B→K ∗ γ decay rates is either flipped or greatly enhanced could be ruled out with more precise data.Note:
- 11 pages, 2 figures. Extended version to appear in Physics Letters B. Includes an additional section with a discussion of New Physics effects
- B: radiative decay
- K*(892)
- amplitude analysis
- isospin: violation
- quantum chromodynamics: factorization
- Feynman graph: penguin
- anti-B0: branching ratio
- B-: branching ratio
- numerical calculations
- B --> K*(892) photon
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