SU(3) relations and the CP asymmetries in B decays to ηKS, φKS, and K+KKS

Yuval Grossman, Zoltan Ligeti, Yosef Nir, and Helen Quinn
Phys. Rev. D 68, 015004 – Published 16 July 2003
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Abstract

We consider CP asymmetries in neutral B meson decays to ηKS, φKS, and K+KKS. We use SU(3) relations to estimate or bound the contributions to these amplitudes proportional to Vub*Vus. Such contributions induce a deviation of the Sf terms measured in these time dependent CP asymmetries from that measured for ψKS. For the K+KKS mode, we estimate the deviation to be of order 0.1. For the ηKS mode, we obtain an upper bound on this deviation of order 0.3. For the φKS mode, we have to add a mild dynamical assumption to the SU(3) analysis due to insufficient available data, yielding an upper bound of order 0.25. These bounds may improve significantly with future data. While they are large at present compared to the usually assumed standard model contribution, they are obtained with minimal assumptions and hence provide more rigorous tests for new physics. If measurements yield |SfSψK| that are much larger than our bounds, it would make a convincing case for new physics.

  • Received 25 March 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.68.015004

©2003 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Yuval Grossman1,*, Zoltan Ligeti2,†, Yosef Nir3,‡, and Helen Quinn4,§

  • 1Department of Physics, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, 32000 Haifa, Israel
  • 2Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 3Department of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
  • 4Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA

  • *Electronic address: yuvalg@physics.technion.ac.il
  • Electronic address: zligeti@lbl.gov
  • Electronic address: yosef.nir@weizmann.ac.il
  • §Electronic address: quinn@slac.stanford.edu

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Vol. 68, Iss. 1 — 1 July 2003

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