Charmless Hardronic Decays $B_u \to V V $: Angular Distributions, Direct CP Violation and Determination of the Unitary Triangle

Details Charmless Hardronic Decays $B_u \to V V $: Angular Distributions, Direct CP Violation and Determination of the Unitary Triangle Charmless Hardronic Decays $B_u \to V V $: Angular Distributions, Direct CP Violation and Determination of the Unitary Triangle

1999-05-14

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9905338v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

14 pages, Latex

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Two-body charmless nonleptonic decays of $B_u \to V V$ are studied within the generalized factorization approach using a recent calculation of the effective Wilson coefficients $c^{eff}_i$, which are not only renormalization-scale and -scheme independent but also gauge invariant and infrared finite. After making a universal ansatz for the nonfactorizable contributions, we parametrize these effects in terms of $N_c^{eff}(LL)$ and $N_c^{eff}(LR)$, the effective numbers of colors arising from $(V-A)(V-A)$ and $(V-A)(V+A)$ four-quark operators, respectively. Three different schemes for these contributions are considered: (i) the naive factorization, (ii) the large-N_c improved factorization, and (iii) our preferred choice: $(N_c^{eff}(LL), N_c^{eff}(RR))=(2,5)$. We present the full angular distribution of all charmless $B_u \to V V$ decays in both transversity and helicity frames.Direct CP violation in these normalized angular correlation coefficients is not negligible in $B^-_u \to K^{*-} \rho^0, K^{*-} \omega$, and direct CP violation in the partial rate difference for $B^-_u \to K^{*-} \omega, K^{*-} \rho$ and $\rho^- \omega$ can be as large as 45%, 25%, -10%, respectively. Due to the sizable QCD penguin contributions in $\rho^- \omega$, the determination of the unitary triangle $\alpha$ via this decay mode is more promising than via $\rho^- \rho^0$. It is also encouraging to determine the unitary triangle $\gamma$ through $B^-_u \to K^{*-} \rho$ because of $N_c$-insensitivity and the not-so-small tree contribution. The impacts of a negative $\rho$ on the branching ratios and CP violation are studied. We also comment on the theoretical uncertainties and their possible impacts.

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