Photon polarization in radiative B decays

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2002-05-07

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0205065v2

Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 054008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

22 pages, 3 figures, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.66.054008

We study decay distributions in B -> K pi pi gamma, combining contributions from several overlapping resonances in a K pi pi mass range near 1400 MeV, (1^+) K_1(1400), (2^+) K^*_2(1430) and (1^-) K^*(1410). A method is proposed for using these distributions to determine a photon polarization parameter in the effective radiative weak Hamiltonian. This parameter is measured through an up-down asymmetry of the photon direction relative to the K pi pi decay plane. We calculate a dominant up-down asymmetry of 0.33 +- 0.05 from the K1(1400) resonance, which can be measured with about 10^8 B B-bar pairs, thus providing a new test for the Standard Model and a probe for some of its extensions.

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