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A Critical Look at Rescattering Effects on $\gamma$ from $B^+\to K\pi$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-23 v1

Abstract

Three ways are compared of dealing with rescattering effects in B±K0π±B^{\pm}\to K^0\pi^{\pm}, in order to determine the weak phase γ\gamma from these processes and B±K±π0B^{\pm}\to K^{\pm}\pi^0. We find that neglecting these contributions altogether may involve sizable errors in γ\gamma, depending on the rescattering amplitude and on the value of a certain measurable strong phase. We show that an attempt to eliminate these effects by using the charge-averaged rate of B±K±K0B^{\pm}\to K^{\pm}K^0 suffers from a large theoretical error due to SU(3) breaking, which may be resolved when using also the processes B±π±η8B^{\pm}\to \pi^{\pm}\eta_8.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9902482,
  title  = {A Critical Look at Rescattering Effects on $\gamma$ from $B^+\to K\pi$},
  author = {Michael Gronau and Dan Pirjol},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9902482},
  year   = {2010}
}

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10 pages with 6 figures