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$\eta^{(\prime)}$ productions in semileptonic B decays

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

Abstract

Inspired by the new measurements on Bη()νˉB^{-}\to \eta^{(\prime)}\ell \bar\nu_{\ell} from the BaBar Collaboration, we examine the constraint on the flavor-singlet mechanism, proposed to understand the large branching ratios for BηKB\to \eta^{\prime} K decays. Based on the mechanism, we study the decays of Bˉd,sη()+\bar B_{d,s}\to \eta^{(\prime)} \ell^{+} \ell^{-} and find that they are sensitive to the flavor-singlet effects. In particular, we show that the decay branching ratios of Bˉd,sη+\bar B_{d,s}\to \eta^{\prime} \ell^{+} \ell^{-} can be as large as O(108)O(10^{-8}) and O(106)O(10^{-6}), respectively.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0608246,
  title  = {$\eta^{(\prime)}$ productions in semileptonic B decays},
  author = {Chuan-Hung Chen and Chao-Qiang Geng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0608246},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

10 pages, 2 figures, final version to appear in Phys. Lett. B