Published March 16, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Probing photon helicity in radiative B decays via charmonium resonance interference

  • 1. Laboratory for High-Energy Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale, CH-1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)

Description

We investigate a new method to probe the helicity of the photon emitted in the b->sγ transition. The method relies on the observation of interference effects between two resonance contributions, B->K*(Kγ)γ and B->ηc(γγ)K or B->χc0(γγ)K to the same final state Kγγ. Decays of the type B->Kres(Kγ)γ dominate the B->Kγγ yield throughout most of the phase space, and may be accessible at current B meson facilities already

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2006.02.004;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-ph/0509030v3;
PII
S0370-2693(06)00161-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
634
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 403-407
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.