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Electroweak Effects in the Double Dalitz Decay $B_s \to l^+ l^- l'^+ l'^-$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We investigate the double Dalitz decays Bsl+ll+lB_s \to l^+ l^- l'^+ l'^- on the basis of the effective Hamiltonian for the transition bsˉl+lb \bar{s} \to l^+ l^-, and universal form factors suggested by QCD. The correlated mass spectrum of the two lepton pairs in the decay Bse+eμ+μB_s \to e^+ e^- \mu^+ \mu^- is derived in an efficient way, using a QED result for meson decays mediated by two virtual photons: Bsγγe+eμ+μB_s \to \gamma^* \gamma^* \to e^+ e^- \mu^+ \mu^-. A comment is made on the correlation between the planes of the two lepton pairs. The conversion ratios ρllll=Γ(Bsl+ll+l)Γ(Bsγγ)\rho_{lll'l'}= \frac{\Gamma(B_s \to l^+ l^- l'^+ l'^-)}{\Gamma(B_s \to \gamma \gamma)} are estimated to be ρeeee=3×104,ρeeμμ=9×105andρμμμμ=3×105\rho_{eeee}=3 \times 10^{-4}, \rho_{ee\mu\mu}=9 \times 10^{-5} \text{and} \rho_{\mu\mu\mu\mu}=3 \times 10^{-5}, and are enhanced relative to pure QED by 103010-30 %.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0301056,
  title  = {Electroweak Effects in the Double Dalitz Decay $B_s \to l^+ l^- l'^+ l'^-$},
  author = {Yusuf Dincer and L. M. Sehgal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0301056},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Two typos corrected: (i) factor $1/\Gamma_{\gamma\gamma}$ inserted in Eq. (14), (ii) co-ordinate labels $x_{12},x_{34}$ inserted in Figs. 1-3. To appear in Physics Letters B