Quasi-two-body decays $B_c \to D_{(s)} [\rho(770),\rho(1450),\rho(1700) \to ] \pi \pi$ in the perturbative QCD factorization approach

TL;DR

This paper calculates the branching ratios and CP violations of specific Bc meson decays involving rho resonances using the perturbative QCD approach, providing predictions for future experimental tests.

Contribution

It introduces a novel PQCD-based method to analyze quasi-two-body Bc decays with rho resonances, incorporating final-state interactions and extracting form factors from experimental data.

Findings

Branching ratios range from 10^{-9} to 10^{-5}.

Direct CP violations are around 10-40%.

Predictions for Bc to D rho(1450,1700) decays are provided.

Abstract

In this paper, we studied the quasi-two-body $B_c \to D_{(s)} [ \rho(770),\rho(1450),\rho(1700) \to ] \pi \pi$ decays by employing the perturbative QCD (PQCD) factorization approach. The two-pion distribution amplitudes $\Phi_{\pi\pi}$ are applied to include the final-state interactions between the pion pair, while the time-like form factors $F_{\pi}(w^2)$ associated with the $P$-wave resonant states $\rho(770)$, $\rho(1450)$ and $\rho(1700)$ are extracted from the experimental data of the $e^+e^-$ annihilation. We found that: (a) the PQCD predictions for the branching ratios of the quasi-two-body $B_c \to D_{(s)} [\rho(770), \rho(1450), \rho(1700) \to ] \pi \pi$ decays are in the order of $10^{-9}$ to $ 10^{-5}$ and the direct $CP$ violations around $(10-40)\%$ in magnitude; (b) the two sets of the large hierarchy $R_{1a,1b,1c}$ and $R_{2a,2b,2c}$ for the ratios of the branching ratios of the considered decays are defined and can be understood in the PQCD factorization approach, while the self-consistency between the quasi-two-body and two-body framework for $B_{c} \to D_{(s)} [\rho(770) \to ] \pi \pi$ and $B_{c} \to D_{(s)} \rho(770)$ decays are confirmed by our numerical results; (c) taking currently known ${\cal B}(\rho(1450)\to\pi\pi)$ and ${\cal B}(\rho(1700) \to \pi\pi)$ as input, we extracted the theoretical predictions for ${\cal B}(B_{c} \to D \rho(1450)) $ and ${\cal B}(B_{c} \to D \rho(1700))$ from the PQCD predictions for the decay rates of the quasi-two-body decays $B_{c} \to D [\rho(1450), \rho(1700) \to ] \pi \pi$. All the PQCD predictions will be tested in the future experiments.