New physics effects on triple product correlations in Lambda(b) decays

Aug, 2002
19 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 66 (2002) 094004
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Report number:
  • UDEM-GPP-TH-02-102

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Abstract:
We adopt an effective-lagrangian approach to compute the new-physics contributions to T-violating triple-product correlations in charmless Lambda_b decays. We use factorization and work to leading order in the heavy-quark expansion. We find that the standard-model (SM) predictions for such correlations can be significantly modified. For example, triple products which are expected to vanish in the SM can be enormous (~50%) in the presence of new physics. By measuring triple products in a variety of Lambda_b decays, one can diagnose which new-physics operators are or are not present. Our general results can be applied to any specific model of new physics by simply calculating which operators appear in that model.
  • 11.30.Er
  • 13.30.Eg
  • Lambda/b0: hadronic decay
  • Lambda/b0: decay modes
  • final state: (0charm)
  • pseudoscalar meson
  • vector meson: polarization
  • Lambda/b0: polarization
  • time reversal: violation
  • correlation