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Probing $c\to u\gamma$ in $B_c\to B_u^*\gamma$ decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Flavour changing neutral current (FCNC) transitions cuγc\to u\gamma and cul+lc\to ul^+l^- are very rare in the standard model and present an interesting probe for the physics beyond it. We study long distance contamination to these short distance processes in different hadron decays. As the most suitable probe for cuγc\to u\gamma transition we propose BcBuγB_c\to B_u^*\gamma decay. Its detection at the branching ratio well above 10810^{-8} would signal new physics. The cul+lc\to ul^+l^- transition may be probed at high mllm_{ll} in Dπl+lD\to \pi l^+l^-. The decays DVγD\to V\gamma and DVl+lD\to Vl^+l^- (VV is a light vector meson) are less suitable, since they are dominated by the long distance effects.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9905304,
  title  = {Probing $c\to u\gamma$ in $B_c\to B_u^*\gamma$ decay},
  author = {S. Prelovsek and S. Fajfer and P. Singer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9905304},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

5 pages, Talk presented at XXXIV Recontres de Moriond on 'Electroweak interactions and unified theories', Les Arcs, 13-20.3.1999