SU(3) and isospin breaking effects on BPPP amplitudes

Xiao-Gang He, Guan-Nan Li, and Dong Xu
Phys. Rev. D 91, 014029 – Published 26 January 2015

Abstract

Several modes of B decays into three pseudoscalar octet mesons PPP are measured. These decays provide useful information for B decays in the standard model (SM). Some powerful tools in analyzing B decays are flavor SU(3) and isospin symmetries. Such analyses are usually hampered by SU(3) breaking effects due to a relatively large strange quark mass which breaks SU(3) symmetry down to isospin symmetry. The isospin symmetry also breaks down when the up and down quark mass difference is nonzero. It is, therefore, interesting to find relations which are not sensitive to SU(3) and isospin breaking effects. We find that the relations among several fully symmetric BPPP decay amplitudes are not affected by first-order SU(3) breaking effects due to a nonzero strange quark mass, and also some of them are not affected by first isospin breaking effects. These relations, therefore, hold to good precisions. The measurements for these relations can provide important information about B decays in the SM.

  • Received 30 October 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.014029

© 2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Xiao-Gang He1,2,3,*, Guan-Nan Li2,†, and Dong Xu1,‡

  • 1INPAC, SKLPPC, and Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
  • 2CTS, CASTS, and Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
  • 3Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan

  • *hexg@phys.ntu.edu.tw
  • lgn198741@126.com
  • xudong1104@gmail.com

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Vol. 91, Iss. 1 — 1 January 2015

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