Published May 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Charm Penguin in B± → K±K+K−: Partonic and hadronic loops

  • 1. Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, 22.290-180, Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)
  • 2. Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, DCTA 12.228-900 São José dos Campos, SP (Brazil)

Description

Charm penguin diagrams are known to be the main contribution to charmless B decay process with strangeness variation equal to minus one, which is the case of B±K±K+K decay. The large phase space available in this and other B three-body decays allows non trivial final state interactions with all sort of rescattering processes and also access high momentum transfers in the central region of the Dalitz plane. In this work we investigate the charm Penguin contribution to B±K±K+K, described by a hadronic triangle loop in nonperturbative regions of the phase space, and by a partonic loop at the quasi perturbative region. These nonresonant amplitudes should have a particular structure in the Dalitz plane and their contributions to the final decay amplitude can be confirmed by a data amplitude analysis in this channel. In particular, the hadronic amplitude has a changing sign in the phase at DD¯ threshold which can result in a change of sign for the CP asymmetry.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.02.062

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2018.02.062;
arXiv
arXiv:1712.01230v1;
PII
S0370269318301746;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
780
Journal Page Range
p. 357-362
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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