English

B decays dominated by omega-phi mixing

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Recently Belle has established the 90% confidence level (CL) upper limit \b<9.4×107\b < 9.4 \times 10^{-7} for the branching ratio for B0J/ψϕB^0\to J/\psi \phi, a process expected to be suppressed by the Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka (OZI) rule disfavoring disconnected quark diagrams. We use information on ω\omega--ϕ\phi mixing to establish likely lower bounds on this and related processes. We find that the Belle result is about a factor of five above our limit, while other decays such as B0Dˉ0ϕB^0 \to \bar D^0 \phi and B+π+ϕB^+ \to \pi^+ \phi, for which upper limits have been obtained by BaBar, could be observable with similar improvements in data. We argue that a significant enhancement of our predicted decay rates by rescattering is unlikely.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0806.3584,
  title  = {B decays dominated by omega-phi mixing},
  author = {Michael Gronau and Jonathan L. Rosner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.3584},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

paragraph added, submitted to Physics Letters B

R2 v1 2026-06-21T10:53:14.151Z