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$B\to K\eta,K\eta^{\prime}$ Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-04-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The nonet symmetry scheme seems to describe rather well the masses and ηη\eta-\eta^{\prime} mixing angle of the ground state pseudo-scalar mesons and is thus expected to be also a good approximation for the matrix elements of the pseudo-scalar density operators which play an important role in charmless two-body B decays with η\eta or η\eta^{\prime} in the final state. In this talk, I would like to report on a recent work on the BKη,KηB^{-}\to K^{-}\eta, K^{-}\eta^{\prime} decay using nonet symmetry for the matrix elements of pseudo-scalar density operators. We find that the branching ratio BPPB\to PP, with an η\eta meson in the final state agrees well with data, while those with an η\eta^{\prime} meson are underestimated by 203020-30%. This could be considered as a more or less successful prediction for QCDF, considering the theoretical uncertainties involved. This could also indicate that an additional power-suppressed terms could bring the branching ratio close to experiment, as with the BKπB\to K^{*}\pi and BKηB\to K^{*}\eta decay for which the measured branching ratios are much bigger than the QCDF predictions.

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@article{arxiv.0810.0131,
  title  = {$B\to K\eta,K\eta^{\prime}$ Decays},
  author = {T. N. Pham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0131},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Talk given at QCD08, the 14th International QCD Conference, 7-12th July 2008, Montpellier (France), LaTeX, 7 pages

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