2003/03/31 by Alakabha Datta, David London · 9 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Asymmetry #B meson #CP violation #Excited state #Factorization #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Meson #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Product (mathematics) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quark #Standard Model (mathematical formulation) #Triple product #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217751x04018300
published as Int.J.Mod.Phys.A19:2505-2544,2004 · 42 pages, LaTeX, no figures. Title changed, several explanatory paragraphs added, references added, analysis and conclusions unchanged
arxiv created 2003/12/04 · openalex publication_date 2004/06/20 · arxiv updated 2014/11/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In this paper we examine T-violating triple-product correlations (TP's) in B→V 1 V 2 decays. TP's are excellent probes of physics beyond the standard model (SM) for two reasons: (i) within the SM, most TP's are expected to be tiny, and (ii) unlike direct CP asymmetries, TP's are not suppressed by the small strong phases which are expected in B decays. TP's are obtained via the angular analysis of B→V 1 V 2 . In a general analysis based on factorization, we demonstrate that the most promising decays for measuring TP's in the SM involve excited final-state vector mesons, and we provide estimates of such TP's. We find that there are only a handful of decays in which large TP's are possible, and the size of these TP's depends strongly on the size of nonfactorizable effects. We show that TP's which vanish in the SM can be very large in models with new physics. The measurement of a nonzero TP asymmetry in a decay where none is expected would specifically point to new physics involving large couplings to the right-handed b-quark.