Bounding the penguin effects on determinations of $α$ from $B^0(t)\toπ^+π^-$ decays

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1999-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9903447v1

Phys.Rev. D60 (1999) 054020

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

10 pages ReVTeX with 3 included eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.60.054020

In the absence of the QCD penguin contributions a measurement of the time-dependent asymmetry in the decay $B^0(t)\to \pi^+\pi^-$ gives directly the weak angle $\alpha$. Several bounds have been proposed in the literature on the magnitude of the penguin effects on this determination, the prototype of which is the isospin bound of Grossman and Quinn. It is pointed out that large strong final state interactions could cause these bounds to overestimate the real penguin effect. A new flavor SU(3) bound is proposed, requiring only the charge-averaged branching ratios for $B^0\to \pi^+\pi^-$ and $B_s\to K^+K^-$, which exactly takes into account all relevant amplitudes and electroweak penguin effects. This bound on the penguin-induced error on the determination of the weak phase $\alpha$ holds even without a knowledge of the direct CP asymmetry in the $\pi^+\pi^-$ channel.

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