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Large SU(3) breaking effects and CP violation in $B^+ $ decays into three charged SU(3) octet pseudoscalar mesons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-16 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

TThe LHCb collaboration has recently reported evidence for non-zero CP asymmetries in B+B^+ decays into π+K+K,  π+π+π,  K+K+K\pi^+ K^+ K^-,\; \pi^+\pi^+\pi^-,\; K^+ K^+ K^- and K+π+πK^+\pi^+\pi^-. The branching ratios for these decays have also been measured with different values ranging from 5×1065\times 10^{-6} to 51×10651\times 10^{-6}. If flavor SU(3)SU(3) symmetry is a good symmetry for BB decays, in the case that the dominant amplitude is momentum independent it is expected that branching ratios BrBr and CP violating rate differences ΔCP=ΓΓ\Delta_{CP} = \Gamma - \overline{\Gamma} satisfy, Br(π+π+π)=2Br(π+K+K)Br(\pi^+\pi^+\pi^-) = 2Br(\pi^+ K^+ K^-), Br(K+K+K)=2Br(K+π+π)Br(K^+K^+K^-) = 2 Br(K^+\pi^+\pi^-), and ΔCP(π+π+π)=2ΔCP(π+K+K)=ΔCP(K+K+K)=2ΔCP(K+π+π)\Delta_{CP}(\pi^+\pi^+\pi^-) = 2\Delta_{CP}(\pi^+ K^+K^-) = - \Delta_{CP}(K^+K^+K^-) = -2\Delta_{CP}(K^+\pi^+\pi^-). The experimental data do not exhibit the expected pattern for the branching ratios. The rate differences for B+π+π+πB^+\to \pi^+\pi^+\pi^- and B+K+K+KB^+\to K^+ K^+ K^- satisfy the relation between ΔS=0\Delta S =0 and ΔS=1\Delta S=1 well, but the other two do not, with the CP asymmetries having different signs than expected. In this work we study how to including momentum dependent and also SU(3)SU(3) breaking effects on these decays to explain experimental data. We find that only including lowest order derivative terms, in the SU(3)SU(3) limit, the decay patterns cannot be explained. Large SU(3)SU(3) breaking effects are needed to explain the data.

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@article{arxiv.1307.7186,
  title  = {Large SU(3) breaking effects and CP violation in $B^+ $ decays into three charged SU(3) octet pseudoscalar mesons},
  author = {Dong Xu and Guan-Nan Li and Xiao-Gang He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.7186},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Review Tex, 20 pages, no figure. Materials extensively extended to include momentum dependent decay amplitudes