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 for the branching ratio for , a process expected to be suppressed by the Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka (OZI) rule disfavoring disconnected quark diagrams. We use information on -- 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 and , 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.
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@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}
}
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paragraph added, submitted to Physics Letters B