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Final State Interactions in the Decays of Heavy Quarks

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

I discuss some recent results on the systematic behavior of final state rescattering which makes use of the limit of a heavy B meson. The results suggest that soft final state interactions do not disappear in the large mBm_B limit. Soft and hard final state phases can both contribute to CP violating asymmetries in B decay. The way that the soft phases occur is interesting theoretically and suggests the violation of local quark-hadron duality.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9607352,
  title  = {Final State Interactions in the Decays of Heavy Quarks},
  author = {John F. Donoghue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9607352},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

6 pages, Latex, talk presented at the 3rd German-Russian Workshop on Heavy Quark Physics, Dubna, May 1996