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In this article, we calculate the nonfactorizable soft contributions in the $B \to \eta_c K, \chi_{c0} K$ decays with the light cone QCD sum rules approach. Our results show that the nonfactorizable corrections from the soft gluon exchanges…
We study the quasi-two-body decays $B\to P D^{\ast}_0(2400) \to P D\pi $ with $P=(\pi, K, \eta, \eta^{\prime})$ in the perturbative QCD factorization approach. The predicted branching fractions for the considered decays are in the range of…
An important experimental effort has been accomplished in recent years in the measurement of rates, polarization and CP observables in $B$ decays into two light vector mesons. On the theoretical side, after a very consistent effort done…
In the covariant light-front quark model, we investigate the $B_c\to h_c, \chi_{c0,1,2}$ form factors. The form factors are evaluated in space-like kinematic region and are recasted to the physical region by adopting the exponential…
In this paper, we calculate the branching ratios for B^0\to D_s^+\pi^-, B^+\to D_s^+\pi^0, B^0\to D_s^{*+}\pi^- and B^+\to D_s^{*+}\pi^0 decays in the perturbative QCD factorization approach. We find that the calculated branching ratios of…
We analyze the decay $D_s\to \phi \pi$ with QCD factorization in the heavy quark limit. The nonfactorizable contributions, including hard spectator contribution are discussed and numerical results are presented. Our predictions on the…
Motivated by the recent experimental data, we have revisited the $B\to \pi K,\pi \pi$ decays in the framework of QCD factorization, with inclusion of the important strong penguin corrections of order $\alpha_s^2$ induced by $b\to D g^\ast…
By employing the perturbative QCD (PQCD) factorization approach, we made a systematic investigation for the CP-averaged branching ratios and the CP-violating asymmetries of the thirteen $\bar{B}^0_s \to PP $ decays ( here $P=(\pi,K, \eta,…
With only the tree level operator, the decay of $\Lambda_b\rightarrow pK$ is predicted to be one order smaller than the experimental data. The QCD penguin effects should be taken into account. In this paper, we explore the one-loop QCD…
We calculate the semileptonic branching ratio and the charm counting of inclusive $B$ meson decays using the perturbative QCD formalism. For the nonleptonic decays, we employ the modified factorization theorem, in which Wilson coefficients…
Motivated by the recent LHCb measurements on $\bar{B}_{s}$ $\to$ $\pi^{-}K^{*+}$ and $\bar{B}_{s}$ $\to$ $K^{\pm}K^{*\mp}$ decay modes, we revisit the $B_{s}$ $\to$ $PV$ decays within QCD factorization framework. The effects of…
We present a unified method for analysing form factors in B -> pi l nu-bar_l and B -> K* gamma decays. The analysis provides consistency checks on the q^2 and 1/M extrapolations necessary to obtain the physical decay rates. For the first…
It is commonly believed that a careful investigation of the subleading terms is crucial for a better understanding of the $QCD$ factorization in charmless B decays. In this work the penguin-dominated $B\to K\pi$ decays are discussed…
We review recent progress in the computation of structure-dependent QED corrections to exclusive $B$ decays in the factorization approach.
We make a systematic investigation on the double charm decays of $B_c$ meson, by employing the perturbative QCD approach based on $k_T$ factorization. It is found that the non-factorizable emission diagrams are not negligible in these…
In this note, we calculate the branching ratio of B_c\to J/\psi K in the framework of perturbative QCD approach based on k_T factorization. This decay can occur only via tree level diagrams in the Standard Model. We find that the branching…
We calculate the important next-to-leading-order (NLO) contributions to the $B \to K K^*$ decays from the vertex corrections, the quark loops, and the magnetic penguins in the perturbative QCD (pQCD) factorization approach. The pQCD…
We study the exclusive decays of $B\to K^{(*)}\ell^+ \ell^-$ by the results in the perturbative QCD with the heavy quark effective theory and lattice calculations. We obtain the form factors for the $B\to K^{(*)}$ transitions in the whole…
We investigate exclusive nonleptonic $B$ meson decays $B\to\phi K$ in perturbative QCD formalism. It is shown that the end-point (logarithmic and linear) singularities in decay amplitudes do not exist, after $k_T$ and threshold resummations…
A brief summary of outstanding theoretical issues and recent results from the QCD factorization approach to exclusive hadronic B decays is provided.