Analysis of B-> φK Decays in QCD Factorization

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2000-12-13

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0012152v3

Phys.Rev. D64 (2001) 074004

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

13 pages, 3 figures. A major change for the presentation of branching-ratio predictions. Experimental data are updated

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.64.074004

We analyze the decay $B\to \phi K$ within the framework of QCD-improved factorization. We found that although the twist-3 kaon distribution amplitude dominates the spectator interactions, it will suppress the decay rates slightly. The weak annihilation diagrams induced by $(S-P)(S+P)$ penguin operators, which are formally power-suppressed by order $(\Lambda/m_b)^2$, are chirally and logarithmically enhanced. Therefore, these annihilation contributions are not subject to helicity suppression and can be sizable. The predicted branching ratio of $B^-\to\phi K^-$ is $(3.8\pm0.6)\times 10^{-6}$ in the absence of annihilation contributions and it becomes $(4.3^{+3.0}_{-1.4})\times 10^{-6}$ when annihilation effects are taken into account. The prediction is consistent with CLEO and BaBar data but smaller than the BELLE result.

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