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On the color suppressed contribution to $\bar{B_{d}^0} \rightarrow \, \pi^0 \pi^{0}

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-03-22 v1

Abstract

The decay modes of the type BππB \rightarrow \pi \, \pi are dynamically different. For the case Bd0ˉπ+π\bar{B_{d}^0} \rightarrow \, \pi^+ \pi^- there is a substantial factorized contribution which dominates. In contrast, the decay mode Bd0ˉπ0π0\bar{B_{d}^0} \rightarrow \, \pi^0 \pi^{0} has a small factorized contribution, being proportional to a small Wilson coefficient combination. However, for the decay mode Bd0ˉπ0π0\bar{B_{d}^0} \rightarrow \, \pi^0 \pi^{0} there is a sizeable nonfactorizable (color suppressed) contribution due to soft (long distance) interactions, which dominate the amplitude. We estimate the branching ratio for the mode Bd0ˉπ0π0\bar{B_{d}^0} \rightarrow \, \pi^0 \pi^{0} in the heavy quark limit for the bb- quark. In order to estimate color suppressed contributions we treat the energetic light (u,d,su,d,s) quark within a variant of Large Energy Effective Theory combined with a recent extension of chiral quark models in terms of model- dependent gluon condensates. We find that our calculated color suppressed amplitude is suppressed by a factor of order ΛQCD/mb\Lambda_{QCD}/m_b with respect to the factorizable amplitude, as it should according to QCD-factorization. Further, for reasonable values of the constituent quark mass and the gluon condensate, the calculated nonfactorizable amplitude for Bd0ˉπ0π0\bar{B_{d}^0} \rightarrow \, \pi^0 \pi^{0} can easily accomodate the experimental value. Unfortunately, the color suppressed amplitude is very sensitive to the values of these model dependent parameters. Therefore fine-tuning is necessary in order to obtain an amplitude compatible with the experimental result for Bd0ˉπ0π0\bar{B_{d}^0} \rightarrow \, \pi^0 \pi^{0} . A possible link to the triangle anomaly is discussed.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1012.4323,
  title  = {On the color suppressed contribution to $\bar{B_{d}^0} \rightarrow \, \pi^0 \pi^{0}},
  author = {Jan O. Eeg and Teresa Palmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.4323},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

The submitted Latex version correspond to 23 pages in ps-version and contains 4 figures