English

Rescattering and electroweak penguin effects in determinations of the weak phase $\gamma$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-23 v1

Abstract

Determinations of the CKM phase γ\gamma from weak nonleptonic BB decays are affected by electroweak (EW) penguins and rescattering effects. In this talk it is explained how the EW penguin effects can be controlled with the help of SU(3) symmetry, by relating them to tree-level amplitudes. The impact of the final-state interactions on the determination of γ\gamma from B+KπB^+\to K\pi decays is studied numerically, showing that they can be important. A few alternative methods are discussed which use additional decays to eliminate their effects.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9908306,
  title  = {Rescattering and electroweak penguin effects in determinations of the weak phase $\gamma$},
  author = {Dan Pirjol},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9908306},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

11 pages with 6 included figures; invited talk given at the Beauty '99 conference, June 21-25, Bled, Slovenia