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Angular analyses of exclusive $\Bbar\to X \ell_1 \ell_2$ with complex helicity amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2015-09-02 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present the differential rates for exclusive \BbarX12\Bbar\to X \ell_1 \ell_2, where 1\ell_1 is a charged massless lepton and 2\ell_2 is a charged or neutral massless lepton, and XX is a mesonic system up to spin 2. The cases of interest are semileptonic (SL) \Bbar\xcu\ellm\barnuell\Bbar\to \xcu\ellm \barnuell decays, and \BbarXs\ellm\ellp\Bbar \to X_s \ellm \ellp where the the di-lepton can be ccˉc \bar{c} resonances or non-resonant electroweak penguins (EWP). We consider helicity amplitudes having non-zero relative phases that can be potential new sources for CP-violation. Our motivations for these additional phases include a complex right-handed admixture in the hadronic weak charged current for the SL decays and complex Wilson coefficients in the effective Hamiltonians for the EWP decays. We demonstrate the efficacy of a novel technique of projecting out the individual angular moments in the full rate expression in a model-independent fashion. Our work is geared towards ongoing data analyses at \babar\babar and LHCb.

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@article{arxiv.1505.02873,
  title  = {Angular analyses of exclusive $\Bbar\to X \ell_1 \ell_2$ with complex helicity amplitudes},
  author = {Biplab Dey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.02873},
  year   = {2015}
}