Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-10-29
Phys.Rev.D77:054021,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
The published version. One figure corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.054021
The final-state interaction in multichannel decay processes is sytematically studied with application to B decay in mind. Since the final-state inteaction is intrinsically interwoven with the decay interaction in this case, no simple phase theorem like "Watson's theorem" holds for experimentally observed final states. We first examine in detail the two-channel problem as a toy-model to clarify the issues and to remedy common mistakes made in earlier literature. Realistic multichannel problems are too challenging for quantitative analysis. To cope with mathematical complexity, we introduce a method of approximation that is applicable to the case where one prominant inelastic channel dominates over all others. We illustrate this approximation method in the amplitude of the decay B to pi K fed by the intermediate states of a charmed meson pair. Even with our approximation we need more accurate information of strong interactions than we have now. Nonethless we are able to obtain some insight in the issue and draw useful conclusions on general fearyres on the strong phases.
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