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Low-mass enhancement of kaon pairs in B+D¯(*)0K+K¯0 and B0D(*)K+K¯0 decays

  • 1. Institute of Theoretical Physics and State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
  • 2. Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica and Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB), Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
  • 3. School of Mathematics and Physics, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211167, China

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Very recently, the Belle II collaboration presented a measurement for the decays B+D¯(*)0K+K¯0 and B0D(*)K+K¯0, with the bulk of observed m(K+KS0) distributions showing low-mass structures in all four channels. In this work, we study the contributions of ρ(770,1450)+, a2(1320)+, and a0(980,1450)+ resonances to these decay processes. The intermediate states ρ(770,1450)+ are found to dominate the low-mass distribution of kaon pairs roughly contributing to half of the total branching fraction in each of the four decay channels. The contribution of the tensor a2(1320)+ meson is found to be negligible. Near the threshold of the kaon pair, the state a0(980)+ turns out to be much less important than expected, not being able to account for the enhancement of events in that energy region observed in the B+D¯(*)0K+K¯0 decays. Further studies both from the theoretical and experimental sides are needed to elucidate the role of the nonresonant contributions governing the formation of K+K¯0 pairs near their threshold in these decay processes.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.109.116009;
arXiv
arXiv:2403.07499;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100001809; 10.13039/501100004608; 10.13039/501100004837; 10.13039/501100011033; 10.13039/100010663;

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Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
15 pgs.
ISSN
1089-4918

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