Branching ratios and CP asymmetries in charmless nonleptonic B decays to radially excited mesons

TL;DR

This paper investigates branching ratios and CP asymmetries in charmless nonleptonic B decays involving radially excited mesons using a generalized naive factorization approach, providing predictions that could be tested experimentally.

Contribution

It introduces calculations of decay rates and CP asymmetries for B decays to radially excited mesons using an improved quark model, extending previous analyses.

Findings

CP asymmetries exceeding 10% in some decays

Branching ratios around 10^{-5} for certain channels

Predictions accessible to current experiments

Abstract

Nonleptonic two body B decays including radially excited $\pi(1300)$ or $\rho(1450)$ mesons in the final state are studied using the framework of generalized naive factorization approach. Branching ratios and CP asymmetries of $B\to P\pi(1300)$, $B\to V\pi(1300)$, $B\to P\rho(1450)$ and $B\to V\rho(1450)$ decays are calculated, where P and V stand for pseudoscalar and vector charmless mesons. Form factors for $B\to \pi(1300)$ and $B\to \rho(1450)$ transitions are estimated in the improved version of the Isgur-Scora-Grinstein-Wise quark model. In some processes, CP asymmetries of more than 10% and branching ratios of $10^{-5}$ order are found, which could be reached in experiments.