Published December 1, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

QCD factorization for charmless hadronic Bs decays revisited

  • 1. Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (United States)
  • 2. Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 115 (China)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan 320 (China)

Description

Branching fractions and CP-violating asymmetries of charmless Bs→PP, VP, VV decays (P and V denoting pseudoscalar and vector mesons, respectively) are reexamined in the framework of QCD factorization (QCDF). We take into account subleading power corrections to the penguin annihilation topology and to color-suppressed tree amplitudes that are crucial for resolving the CP puzzles and rate deficit problems with penguin-dominated two-body decays and color-suppressed tree-dominated π0π0 and ρ0π0 modes in the Bu,d sector. Many of the Bs→h1h2 decays can be related to Bd→h1h2 ones via U-spin or SU(3) symmetry. Some useful model-independent relations can be derived and tested. Mixing-induced CP asymmetries for many of the penguin-dominated decays are predicted to be very small in the standard model. They are sensitive to new physics and offer rich possibilities of new discoveries. Measurements of direct CP-violating asymmetries can be used to discriminate QCDF from other competing approaches such as pQCD and soft-collinear effective theory.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
80
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
p. 114026-114026.25
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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