Light-front quark model analysis of the exclusive rare $B_c\to D_{(s)}(\ell^+\ell^-,\nu_{\ell}\bar{\nu}_{\ell})$ decays

TL;DR

This paper analyzes rare $B_c$ and $B$ meson decays into $D_{(s)}$ mesons and leptons using a light-front quark model, calculating form factors, branching ratios, and lepton polarization asymmetries within the Standard Model.

Contribution

It provides a detailed calculation of form factors and decay observables for rare meson decays using the light-front quark model, including zero-mode contributions and covariance analysis.

Findings

Branching ratios are of order 10^{-8} to 10^{-7} for neutrino modes.

Lepton polarization asymmetries are close to -1 for muon modes.

Results are consistent with Standard Model predictions.

Abstract

We investigate the exclusive rare $B_c\to D_{(s)}\nu_{\ell}\bar{\nu_{\ell}}$ and $B\to D_{(s)}\ell^+\ell^-$ ($\ell=e,\mu,\tau$) decays within the standard model and the light-front quark model constrained by the variational principle for the QCD motivated effective Hamiltonian. The form factors $f_{\pm}(q^2)$ and $f_T(q^2)$ are obtained from the analytic continuation method in the $q^+=0$ frame. While the form factors $f_+(q^2)$ and $f_T(q^2)$ are free from the zero-mode, the form factor $f_-(q^2)$ is not free from the zero-mode in the $q^+=0$ frame. We discuss the covariance(i.e. frame-independence) of our model calculation and quantify the zero-mode contributions to $f_-(q^2)$ for $B_c\to D_{(s)}$ decays. The branching ratios and the longitudinal lepton polarization asymmetries are calculated with and without the long-distance contributions. Our numerical results for the non-resonant branching ratios for $B_c\to D(D_s)\sum\nu_{\ell}\bar{\nu_{\ell}}$ and $B_c\to D(D_s)\ell^+\ell^-$ are in the order of $10^{-8} (10^{-7})$ and $10^{-9} (10^{-8})$, respectively. The averaged values of the lepton polarization asymmetries obtained from the linear (harmonic oscillator) potential parameters are found to be $-0.99 (-0.99)$ for $B_c\to D\mu^+\mu^-$ and $-0.16 (-0.15)$ for $B_c\to D\tau^+\tau^-$, and $-0.98 (-0.98)$ for $B_c\to D_s\mu^+\mu^-$ and $-0.14 (-0.12)$ for $B_c\to D_s\tau^+\tau^-$, respectively.