Strong phases and factorization for color suppressed decays

Jun, 2003
38 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 68 (2003) 114009
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Report number:
  • MIT-CTP-3370

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Abstract:
We prove a factorization theorem in QCD for the color suppressed decays B0-> D0 M0 and B0-> D*0 M0 where M is a light meson. Both the color-suppressed and W-exchange/annihilation amplitudes contribute at lowest order in LambdaQCD/Q where Q={mb, mc, Epi}, so no power suppression of annihilation contributions is found. A new mechanism is given for generating non-perturbative strong phases in the factorization framework. Model independent predictions that follow from our results include the equality of the B0 -> D0 M0 and B0 -> D*0 M0 rates, and equality of non-perturbative strong phases between isospin amplitudes, delta(DM) = delta(D*M). Relations between amplitudes and phases for M=pi,rho are also derived. These results do not follow from large Nc factorization with heavy quark symmetry.
  • 13.25.Hw
  • anti-B0: hadronic decay
  • D*(2010)
  • W: exchange
  • quantum chromodynamics: factorization
  • amplitude analysis
  • Feynman graph
  • nonperturbative
  • anti-B0: branching ratio
  • quark: strangeness