Three body radiative decay $B_s\to \phi \bar K^0 \gamma$ in the PQCD approach
Zhi-Qing Zhang, Hongxia Guo

TL;DR
This paper calculates the branching ratio and CP asymmetry for the rare decay $B_s o \phi ar K^0 \gamma$ using the PQCD approach with two-meson distribution amplitudes, including subleading contributions.
Contribution
It introduces the $\phi K$ pair distribution amplitudes in PQCD to simplify three-body decay calculations and provides detailed predictions for branching ratio and CP asymmetry.
Findings
Branching ratio is approximately 9.26 x 10^{-8}.
Direct CP asymmetry is about -4.1%.
Decay spectrum peaks around 1.95 GeV in $\\phi K$ invariant mass.
Abstract
We study the three body radiative decay by introducing the pair distribution amplitudes (DAs) in the perturbative QCD approach. This nonperturbative inputs, the two meson DAs, is very important to simplify the calculations. Besides the dominant electromagnetic penguin operator , the subleading contributions from chromomagnetic penguin operator , quark-loop corrections and annihilation type amplitudes are also considered. We find that the branching ratio for the decay is about , which is much smaller compared with that for the decay . It is mainly because that the former decay induces by with small CKM matrix element being proportional to . The prediction for the direct CP asymmetry is…
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Three body radiative decay in the PQCD approach
Zhi-Qing Zhang1, Hongxia Guo111Corresponding author: Hongxia Guo, e-mail: [email protected]
1* Department of Physics, Henan University of Technology,
Zhengzhou, Henan 450052, P. R. China;
2 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Zhengzhou University,
Zhengzhou, Henan 450001, P. R. China *
Abstract
We study the three body radiative decay by introducing the pair distribution amplitudes (DAs) in the perturbative QCD approach. This nonperturbative inputs, the two meson DAs, is very important to simplify the calculations. Besides the dominant electromagnetic penguin operator , the subleading contributions from chromomagnetic penguin operator , quark-loop corrections and annihilation type amplitudes are also considered. We find that the branching ratio for the decay is about , which is much smaller compared with that for the decay . It is mainly because that the former decay induces by with small CKM matrix element being proportional to . The prediction for the direct CP asymmetry is , which is well consistent with the result from the U-spin symmetry approach. we also predict the decay spectrum, which exhibits a maximu at the invariant masss around 1.95 GeV.
pacs:
13.25.Hw, 12.38.Bx, 14.40.Nd
I Introduction
In the past decades, the meson three body decays have attracted lots of attentions both on experiments and theories. On the experimental side, many data for the three-body meson decays have been measured by different collaborations, such as Belle belle0 ; belle1 ; belle2 ; belle3 ; belle4 , BaBar babar0 ; babar1 ; babar2 ; babar3 , which provide valuable information about complicated strong dynamics. Especially large regional CP violation in final states lhc1 ; lhc2 ; lhc3 are revealed. All of these have raised great interests and severe challenge to the theorists. On the theoretical side, substantial progress on three-body meson decays has been made through the symmetry principles and factorization theorems. The former includes Isospin, U-spin, flavor SU(3) symmetries and CPT invariance gronau1 ; gronau2 ; dxu1 ; xghe ; imb . The later includes the naive factorization wshou1 ; wshou2 ; wshou3 , QCD factorization (QCDF) furman ; eibennich ; leitner ; cheng1 ; cheng2 ; cheng3 ; yingli ; cheng4 and the perturbative QCD approach lihn0 ; lihn1 ; lihn2 ; yli ; ajma ; zrui ; zrui1 ; hnli3 ; yli2 ; ajma2 ; yli3 ; ajma3 ; yli4 ; ajma4 ; hnli4 ; cwang . It is noticed that the rigorous justification of these approach for the three body decays is not yet available, so these approaches worked in the phenomentological factorization. Compared with two-body decays, the three-body decays is much more complicated because of receiving both nonresonant and resonant contributions. It is difficult to separated them clearly krankl . Furthermore, the final state interactions (FSIs) may be more significant in the three-body decays than those in the two-body decays. Because there exist two distinct FSIs mechanisms. One is the interactions between the meson pair in the resonant region associated with various intermediate states. The other is the rescattering between the third particle (usually referred to as ”bachelor”) and the pair of mesons. The most difficult for the three body decays is evaluation of the matrix elements for B meson transition into two hadrons. Enormous number of diagrams will need to be calculated if one evaluates directly the hard kernels for the three-body decays, which contain two virtual gluons at lowest order. Fortunately, the region with the two gluons being hard simultaneously is power suppressed and not important, which corresponds to the central region of a Dalitz plot cheng4 . The dominant contributions come from the kinematic region corresponding to edges of Dalitz plots, where the two light mesons move almost parallelly. It is possible to catch the dominant contributions in a simple way through introducing a new nonperturbative inputs, two-meson distribution amplitudes diehl ; polyakov ; mller ; maul . This just is one crucial step for the perturbative QCD approach (PQCD) to deal with the three-body B meson decays, which are simplified into the two-body decays. The two-meson DAs (distribution amplitudes) describe the hadronization of two collinear quarks, together with another two quarks popped out of the vacuum, into two collimated mesons. For the system, the two-meson DAs from not only S wave lihn0 ; lihn1 ; lihn2 ; yli ; ajma ; zrui ; zrui1 but also P wave hnli3 ; yli2 ; ajma2 ; yli3 ; ajma3 ; yli4 ; ajma4 have been studied and used widely in meson decays. For system, the two-meson DAs with more complicated structures are studied by few works hnli4 ; cwang .
In view of the status about meson three body decays, we would like to study the three body radiative decay in pQCD approach. In this decay, we can avoid the aforementioned difficulties such as the entangled nonresonant and resonant contributions, significant final-state interactions. At the same time, it provides a clean platform to study the two-meson distribution amplitudes for the pair. Beacause, the similar decay has been researched by experimentsbelle0 ; belle4 ; babar0 and theorieshnli4 ; cwang . These studies shows that no clear evidence is found for the existence of a kaonic resonance decaying to . In pQCD approachcwang , the decay was studied by introducing the two-meson DAs for the pair, where some parameters are extracted from the data pdg16 . So it is meaningful to check if the pair DAs can be used in the decay to predict its branching ratio and direct CP violation.
The layout of this paper is as follows, we analyze the decay using the perturbative QCD approach in Section II. The numerical results and discussions are given in Section III, where the theoretical uncertainties are also considered. The conclusions are presented in the final part.
II the perturbative calculations
The effective Hamiltonian which includes flavor changing transition is given by buchalla
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Under the light-cone coordinates, the momentums of meson and the pair can be written as:
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where the parameter with being the invariant mass of the pair. If we define and as the momenta of the and mesons, respectively, we have , with
[TABLE]
where is the meson momentum fraction and the mass ratio . The on-shell condition is used to obtained . The momentums of the spectator quarks in and mesons can be defined as:
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The momentum of the photon in the final state is written as . The transverse polarization vectors of and pair are given as:
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The pair distribution amplitudes can be related to the and kaon distribution amplitudes pball ; braun through calculating perturbatively the matrix elements , where represent the different Lorentz structures. The matrix elements can be written as the products of the kinematic factors with the corresponding form factors hnli4 :
[TABLE]
Some explanations are in order. The perturbative calculation is only in order to obtain the dependence of the pair distribution amplitudes, which arises from the Lorentz structure of the associated hadronic matrix element, irrespective of whether the form factor is nonperturbative. To obtain the upper expansions, the following approximations to the kinematic factors have been used
[TABLE]
Then the pair distribution amplitudes up to twist-3 can be given as hnli4 :
[TABLE]
where the transversely polarized distribution amplitudes can be expressed as the products of the time-like form facors and the - dependent functions:
[TABLE]
Here the dependence of each DAs except is assumed to be asymptotic form . In order to make the pair DA a bit asymmetric, the first Gegenbauer moment is included. For our considered decays, only the transverse components are used. It is similar for the longitudinal polarized distribution amplitudes
[TABLE]
Here the time-like form factors are used to define the normalization of different twist distribution amplitudes,
[TABLE]
where is the chiral scale and the threshold invariant mass . The parameters and are associated with the longitudinally and transversely polarized meson. Both of them are expected to be few GeV lihn0 and can be determined by fitting the measured branching ratios of and pdg16 . In the later calculations, we set GeV. To construct these form factors, these two points must be considered: First, respecting the kinematic threshold of the decay spectra, ; Second, the power behaviors of the form factors in the asymptotic region with large satisfy keum ; huang .
For the wave function of the heavy meson, we take
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Here only the contribution of Lorentz structure is taken into account, since the contribution of the second Lorentz structure is numerically small and has been neglected. For the distribution amplitude in Eq.(27), we adopt the following model:
[TABLE]
where is a free parameter, we take Gev in numerical calculations, and is the normalization factor for .
The decay spectrum is written as:
[TABLE]
where the conditions are used. For simplicity, we define the common factor in each amplitude as
[TABLE]
where is color factor, and as . If both pair and are left-handed, the explicit factorization formula from operator can be written as:
[TABLE]
where the hard scales are given as:
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and the hard function in the amplitude is from the propagators of virtual quark and gluon:
[TABLE]
The Sudakov factor from the threshold resummation is parameterized as
[TABLE]
with . The evolution factor is given as:
[TABLE]
with the Sudakov exponents being given in Ref.cwang . Compared with the left-helicity amplitude, the right-helicity amplitude is proportional to the ratio which is obviously highly suppressed. by neglecting the mass of quark.
If the hard gluon which is required to kick the soft spectator quark is generated from the operator, one can obtain four diagrams from operator given in Fig.3. The amplitudes for the first two diagrams are listed as:
[TABLE]
where
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There are two kinds of charm/up quark loop contributions specified as the type of photon emission: Quark line photon emission and loop line photon emission. The former means that a photon is emitted through the external quark lines (shown in Fig.3), the gauge invariant quark loop function combined with the vertex is written as where the explicit formula is as follows bander :
[TABLE]
where is the gluon momentum and is the loop internal quark mass. The loop function is given as mat :
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It is noticed that there is no singularity when we take the limit of , so we can neglect components of in the loop function . This kind contribution can be expressed as follows:
[TABLE]
[TABLE]
where the hard function and the hard scales have been defined in Eq.(33) and Eq.(4045), respectively. When the photon is emitted from the quark loop line (shown in Fig.4), the amplitude is expressed as liuj ; simma ; chang
[TABLE]
where the vertex function is defined as follows,
[TABLE]
[TABLE]
where is the gluon momentum and is the momentum of the photon. The amplitudes can be expressed as follows:
[TABLE]
where
[TABLE]
where the ratio with being the quark mass.
For the annihilation diagrams, there are three kinds of operators are used: Both and are left-handed currents, denoted as ; is left-handed current and is right-handed current, denoted as ; the third kind of current is from the Fierz transformation of current. So the factorization formulae for these annihilation diagrams are written as:
[TABLE]
[TABLE]
where the time-like form factor is given in Eq.(26), the hard scales and the evolution factors are defined as:
[TABLE]
By combining these amplitudes from the different Feynman diagrams, one can get the total decay amplitude for the decay :
[TABLE]
where the combinations of the Wilson coefficients are defined as
[TABLE]
III the numerical results and discussions
The input parameters in the numerical calculations pdg16 ; hfag are listed as following:
[TABLE]
Using the input parameters and the wave functions as specified in this section and Sec.I, it is easy to get the branching ratios for the decays
[TABLE]
where the first error is from the meson wave function shape parameter GeV, the second one is from the hard scale from to (without changing ), and the third one is from the Wolfenstein parameter . It is noticed that the result for the region with the invariant mass as large as GeV is not reliable, and the main contribution to the branching ratio is from the peak near the threshold value for the invariant mass as shown in Fig.6. So the cut with GeV is given to the invariant mass. From the result, one can find that the main error are from the scale-dependent uncertainty , which can be reduced only if the next-to-leading order contributions are included. In the future, even if the high order corrections are considered, the corresponding error is still large, it just reflects considerable nonperturbative effects. Certainly, we chose a wider range for the hard scale from to . It is noticed that the hard scale usually vary from to in pervious works.
We also predicted the decay spectrum shown in Fig.6, which exhibits a maximum at the invariant mass around GeV.
The direct CP asymmetry of the is defined by
[TABLE]
We predict the direct CP asymmetry as:
[TABLE]
where the errors are the same with those in Eq.(78). The main error is still from the hard scale varying from to . The errors induced by the hadronic uncertainties, such as the decay constants, the Gegenbauer moments and the shape parameter , which can be dropped out partly in the ratio. Similar conditions also occur in the direct CP asymmetries of the two body decays ali . Some comments are in order:
- •
The branching ratio for the decay is near order, which can be tested by the present running LHCb experiments. The ratio of the branching ratios for the decays and is given as pdg16
[TABLE]
For the decay , it hasn’t been measured by experiment, while studied by QCDF approach beneke and PQCD approach ali and predicted as and , respectively. Combined with our prediction we find that the ratio
[TABLE]
that is to say, the branching ratios of decays are larger than that of corresponding one photon radiation decays about times.
- •
For the decay, the nonresonant contributions are dominant, and the resonant contributions from and mesons through the channel are expected to be negligible. Because the branching ratios of these resonant mesons decaying into pair are not yet available. So this decay provides a clean test for the application of two-meson distribution amplitudes to the B meson three-body decays. It is similar to the decay .
- •
For the decay , the prominent feature of the decay spectra is the enhancement near the threshold, which reaches the maximum at around . Compared the decay spectra of the channel, the peak position move toward the larger region because is heavier than meson. Indeed, the decay spectrum exhibits a maximum at the invariant mass around cwang . However, the shapes of the differential decay rates for the two decay channels should be very similar.
- •
In the process, although the dominant contribution to decay amplitudes comes from the chiral-odd dipole operator , we also considered contributions from operator, the annihilation type amplitudes, especially operator from the quark loop corrections, which is necessary to induce the direct CP violation. The CKM matrix element for the is , while the tree operator is either proportional to or . Then the tree contribution is not suppressed and can give bigger direct CP asymmetries compared that of the decay . For the decay, the CKM matrix for the and tree operators are proportional to and , respectively. The difference between these two interfering amplitudes is large, so the corresponding direct CP asymmetry is small cwang .
- •
U-spin can connect and these two different kinds of weak decays by exchange of soares ; gronau ; hurth . Using the U-spin symmetry and CKM unitarity relation
[TABLE]
one can obtain
[TABLE]
Certainly, U-spin symmetry breaking is introduced through the form factors and . So we can expect that
[TABLE]
Combined the predictions for the decay given in Ref.cwang , one can find this relation is well supported.
IV Conclusion
In this paper, we calculate the branching ratio and the direct CP asymmtry for the decay , which induced by transition. In addition to the dominant eletromagnetic penguin operator, the subleading contributions including the chromomagnetic penguin operator, quark-loop corrections and annihilation amplitudes are also calculated. Compared with the decay , the branching ratio for the decay is much smaller and less than because of the smaller CKM element matrix being proportional to . Although the subleading contribution from the the quark loop corrections is small, it is necessary for the direct CP asymmetry, which is predicted as . These predictions can be well explained by using the U-spin asymmetry approach when combined the results for the decay . We also give the shape of the differential decay rate, which is similar with that for the decay but with different peak position for the . In the upper calculations, the two-meson DAs are introduced to absorb the infrared dynamics in the pair, so the three-body decay amplitude can be factorized, just similar to the two-body case, into the convolution of the wave functions and hard kernels.
Acknowledgment
This work is partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11347030, the Program of Science and Technology Innovation Talents in Universities of Henan Province 14HASTIT037, and the Research Foundation of the Young Core Teacher from Henan University of Technology. Z.Q. Zhang is grateful to Prof. Hsiang-nan Li for helpful discussions.
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