Implication of the $B \to (ρ, ω) γ$ Branching Ratios for the CKM Phenomenology

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2004-05-09

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0405075v2

Phys.Lett.B595:323-338,2004

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

21 pages, 3 figures. Included a discussion of model-dependent estimates of the long-distance/rescattering contributions in rad

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2004.06.039

We study the implication of the recent measurement by the BELLE collaboration of the averaged branching fraction $\bar B_{exp} [B \to (\rho, \omega) \gamma] = (1.8^{+0.6}_{-0.5} \pm 0.1) \times 10^{-6}$ for the CKM phenomenology. Combined with the averaged branching fraction $\bar B_{exp} (B \to K^* \gamma) = (4.06 \pm 0.26) \times 10^{-5}$ measured earlier, this yields $\bar R_{exp} [(\rho, \omega) \gamma/K^* \gamma] = (4.2 \pm 1.3)%$ for the ratio of the two branching fractions. Updating earlier theoretical analysis of these decays based on the QCD factorization framework, and constraining the CKM-Wolfenstein parameters from the unitarity fits, our results yield $\bar B_{th} [B \to (\rho, \omega) \gamma] = (1.38 \pm 0.42) \times 10^{-6}$ and $\bar R_{th} [(\rho, \omega) \gamma/K^* \gamma] = (3.3 \pm 1.0)%$, in agreement with the BELLE data. Leaving instead the CKM-Wolfenstein parameters free, our analysis gives (at 68% C.L.) $0.16\leq |V_{td}/V_{ts}| \leq 0.29$, which is in agreement with but less precise than the indirect CKM-unitarity fit of the same, $0.18 \leq |V_{td}/V_{ts}| \leq 0.22$. The isospin-violating ratio in the $B \to \rho \gamma$ decays and the SU(3)-violating ratio in the $B_d^0 \to (\rho^0, \omega) \gamma$ decays are presented together with estimates of the direct and mixing-induced CP-asymmetries in the $B \to (\rho,\omega) \gamma$ decays within the SM. Their measurements will overconstrain the angle $\alpha$ of the CKM-unitarity triangle.

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