Resolving the B-> phi K^* Polarization Anomaly
Abstract
The experimental observation of sizable transverse components for B-> phi K^* decay is in strong contrast to all other VV modes, and poses a challenge to our understanding of B decay dynamics. Observing that the gluon emitted from b-> sg^{(*)} chromodipole transition is transverse, we give a heuristic model where the transverse phi descends from the emitted gluon, hence similar phenomena should occur for B-> omega K^* but not for B-> rho^0 K^*. New physics in bsg chromodipole coupling, perhaps needed for the \bar B -> phi K_S CP violation anomaly, may lead to different patterns of CP and T violation in transverse components of \bar B -> phi \bar K^*, omega \bar K^* decays.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0408007,
title = {Resolving the B-> phi K^* Polarization Anomaly},
author = {Wei-Shu Hou and Makiko Nagashima},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0408007},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 9 figures, minor updates, slight changes of numerics for figures, more acknowledgements