Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-09-03
Phys.Rev.D76:114020,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
38 pages, 1 figure. The experimental limit in Fig.1 is updated
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.114020
The two-body hadronic decays of B mesons into pseudoscalar and axial vector mesons are studied within the framework of QCD factorization. The light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) for $^3P_1$ and $^1P_1$ axial-vector mesons have been evaluated using the QCD sum rule method. Owing to the G-parity, the chiral-even two-parton light-cone distribution amplitudes of the $^3P_1$ ($^1P_1$) mesons are symmetric (antisymmetric) under the exchange of quark and anti-quark momentum fractions in the SU(3) limit. For chiral-odd LCDAs, it is other way around. The main results are the following: (i) The predicted rates for $a_1^\pm(1260)\pi^\mp$, $b_1^\pm(1235)\pi^\mp$, $b_1^0(1235)\pi^-$, $a_1^+K^-$ and $b_1^+K^-$ modes are in good agreement with the data. However, the naively expected ratios $Br(B^-\to a_1^0\pi^-)/Br(\ov B^0\to a_1^+\pi^-)\leq 1$, $Br(B^-\to a_1^-\pi^0)/Br(\ov B^0\to a_1^-\pi^+)\sim {1\over 2}$ and $Br(B^-\to b_1^0K^-)/Br(\ov B^0\to b_1^+K^-)\sim {1\over 2}$ are not borne out by experiment. This should be clarified by the improved measurements of these decays. (ii) Since the $\bar B\to b_1K$ decays receive sizable annihilation contributions, their rates are sensitive to the interference between penguin and annihilation terms. The measurement of $Br(\bar B^0\to b_1^+K^-)$ implies a destructive interference which in turn indicates that the form factors for $B\to b_1$ and $B\to a_1$ transitions are of opposite signs. (iii) Sizable power corrections such as weak annihilation are needed to account for the observed rates of the penguin-dominated modes $K_1^-(1270)\pi^+$ and $K_1^-(1400)\pi^+$.
Cheng Hai-Yang
Yang Kwei-Chou
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