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Non-leptonic charmless Bc decays and their search at LHCb

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-01-08 v1

Abstract

We discuss the decay of Bc mesons into two light mesons (pi, K^(*), eta', rho, omega, phi). All these decay channels come from a single type of diagram, namely tree annihilation. This allows us to derive extremely simple SU(3) relations among these processes. The size of annihilation contributions is an important issue in B physics, and we provide two different estimates in the case of non-leptonic charmless Bc decays, either a comparison with annihilation decays of heavy-light mesons or a perturbative model inspired by QCD factorisation. We finally discuss a possible search for these channels at LHCb.

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@article{arxiv.0907.2256,
  title  = {Non-leptonic charmless Bc decays and their search at LHCb},
  author = {Sebastien Descotes-Genon and Jibo He and Emi Kou and Patrick Robbe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2256},
  year   = {2010}
}

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22 pages, 1 figure