Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-09-27
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
12 pages, talk given at International Conference on Flavor Physics, Zhang-Jia-Jie City, Hunan, China, 31 May - 6 June, 2001
Scientific paper
We have systematically investigated the semi-inclusive B decays $B\to MX$, which are manifestations of the quark decay $b \to Mq$, within a framework inspired by QCD-improved factorization. These decays are theoretically clean and have distinctive experimental signatures. We focus on a class of these that do not require any form factor information and therefore may be especially suitable for extracting information on the angles $\alpha$ and $\gamma$ of the unitarity triangle. The strong phase coming from final-state rescattering due to hard gluon exchange between the final states can induce large rate asymmetries for tree-dominated color-suppressed modes $(\pi^0,\rho^0,\omega)X_{\bar s}$. The nonfactorizable hard spectator interactions in the 3-body decay $B\to Mq_1\bar q_2$, though phase-space suppressed, are extremely important for the tree-dominated modes $(\pi^0,\rho^0,\omega)X_{\bar s},~\phi X$, $J X_s,J X$ and the penguin-dominated mode $\omega X_{s\bar s}$. Our result for ${\cal B}(B\to J X_s)$ is in agreement with experiment. $B^0_s\to (\pi^0,\rho^0,\omega)X_{\bar s}$, $\rho^0X_{s\bar s}$, $B^0\to(K^-X,K^{*-}X)$ and $B^-\to (K^0X_s,K^{*0}X_s)$ are the most promising ones in searching for direct CP violation: they have branching ratios of order $10^{-6}-10^{-4}$ and CP rate asymmetries of order $(10-40)%$.
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