Published June 1, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Λ hyperon as helicity analyser of s quark in B decay

  • 1. Department of Physics and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)

Description

We explore how well one can probe the s quark chirality of the fundamental weak interaction of nonleptonic B decay using the spin-analysing property of the Λ hyperon. We present the prediction of the standard model as quantitatively as possible in a perturbative QCD picture avoiding detailed form-factor calculation involving quark mass corrections. A clean test of chirality will be possible with B-bar → ΛX when X is an antibaryon or its excited state. (brief report)

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0954-3899/29/B15/g306b2.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics (ISSN 1361-6471) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics
Journal Volume
29
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. B15-B22
ISSN
0954-3899
CODEN
JPGPED