1995/04/19 by Michael Gronau, Oscar F. Hernández, Oscar F. Hernandez +2 · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.52.6356
published as Phys.Rev.D52:6356-6373,1995 · 38 pages, 8 figures, LaTeX file. The full postscript manuscript is available by anon ftp at ftp://lpsvsh.lps.umontreal.ca/theorie/hep-ph/SU3break.ps (a VAX so use the format theorie.hep-ph if you change by more than one directory at a time)
arxiv created 1995/04/19 · openalex publication_date 1995/12/01 · arxiv updated 2010/11/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The decays of B mesons to two-body hadronic final states are analyzed within the context of broken flavor SU(3) symmetry, extending a previous analysis involving pairs of light pseudoscalars to decays involving one or two charmed quarks in the final state. A systematic program is described for learning information from decay rates regarding (i) SU(3)-violating contributions, (ii) the magnitude of exchange and annihilation diagrams (effects involving the spectator quark), and (iii) strong final-state interactions. The implication of SU(3)-breaking effects for the extraction of weak phases is also examined. The present status of data on these questions is reviewed and suggestions for further experimental study are made.