Published December 1, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Nonleptonic two-body decays of the Bc meson in the light-front quark model and the QCD factorization approach

  • 1. Department of Physics, Teachers College, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea 702-701 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8202 (United States)

Description

We study exclusive nonleptonic two-body Bc→(D(s),ηc,B(s))+F decays with F (pseudoscalar or vector mesons) factored out in the QCD factorization approach. The nonleptonic decay amplitudes are related to the product of meson decay constants and the form factors for semileptonic Bc decays. As inputs in obtaining the branching ratios for a large set of nonleptonic Bc decays, we use the weak form factors for the semileptonic Bc→(D(s),ηc,B(s)) decays in the whole kinematical region and the unmeasured meson decay constants obtained from our previous light-front quark model. We compare our results for the branching ratios with those of other theoretical studies.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
80
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
p. 114003-114003.12
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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