General Analysis of $B$ Meson Decay into Two Fermions

TL;DR

This paper presents a model-independent method to analyze $B$ meson decays into two fermions by examining decay product distributions, enabling extraction of coupling constants and interference effects related to spin correlations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to measure decay parameters and interference effects in $B$ meson decays into fermions using momentum and angular distributions of decay products.

Findings

Absolute values of coupling constants can be extracted from opening angles.

Real part of interference is obtainable from energy distributions.

Imaginary part of interference is accessible via azimuthal angle asymmetry.

Abstract

We study how to measure the current structure of the process that $B$ meson decays into two unstable fermions $\bar f_a$ and $f_b$ in model independent way. We use the momentum distributions of subsequent decay products affected by $\bar f_a f_b$ spin correlation. We have found the following: (1) We can extract the absolute values of two effective coupling constants from the opening angle between the particles decayed from $\bar f_a$ and $f_b$ (2) We can extract the real part of the interference from the energy distribution of one of the decayed particles from $\bar f_a$ or $f_b$. (3) No new information can be obtained from the energy distribution of two decayed particles from $\bar f_a$ and $f_b$. (4) The imaginary part of interference is extracted from the azimuthal angle asymmetry of final-state decay products. (5) If only one of two fermions is unstable, we can extract the real part of interference from each of the energy distribution and opening angle distribution. We show several simple examples.