Intrinsic Charm in B-Meson Decays
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
Light cone hadron wave functions support Fock states of arbitrarily high particle number: their heavy quark content arises naturally through QCD interactions. We discuss what role c\bar c pairs, intrinsic to a hadron's structure, can play in B-meson decays. The effects can be prominent in hadronic decays for which the tree-level contributions are Cabibbo-suppressed, as in B\to \pi K decay, and they mimic ``charming penguin'' contributions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0209080,
title = {Intrinsic Charm in B-Meson Decays},
author = {S. Gardner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0209080},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figs, invited talk at the 5th Int'l Conf. on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons (BEACH 2002), Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 25-29,2002, to appear in the proceedings