Study on pure annihilation type B to V gamma decays

TL;DR

This paper analyzes rare B meson decays involving radiative processes using soft-collinear effective theory, highlighting the dominant role of vector meson mixing and providing predictions for decay rates to be tested experimentally.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of pure annihilation B meson decays considering multiple contributions, emphasizing the impact of vector meson mixing effects on decay amplitudes.

Findings

Decay amplitudes dominated by $ ho- ho$ mixing effects.

Branching ratios significantly enhanced by mixing effects.

Predicted branching ratios are within experimental reach.

Abstract

We investigate the pure annihilation type radiative $B$ meson decays $B^0 \to \phi \gamma$ and $B_s \to \rho^0(\omega)\gamma$ in the soft-collinear effective theory. We consider three types of contributions to the decay amplitudes, including the direct annihilation topology, the contribution from the electro-magnetic penguin operator and the contribution of the neutral vector meson mixings. The numerical analysis shows that the decay amplitudes are dominated by the $\omega-\phi$ mixing effect in the $B^0 \to \phi\gamma$ and $B_s \to \omega\gamma$ modes. The corresponding decay branching ratios are enhanced about three orders of magnitudes relative to the pure annihilation type contribution in these two decay channels. The decay rate of $B_s \to \rho^0\gamma$ is much smaller than that of $B_s \to \omega\gamma$ because of the smaller $\rho^0-\phi$ mixing. The predicted branching ratios $B(B^{0}\rightarrow\phi\gamma)=(3.99^{+1.67}_{-1.46} )\times10^{-9},\,B(B_s\rightarrow\omega\gamma)=(2.01^{+0.81}_{-0.71} )\times10^{-7}$ are to be tested by the Belle-II and LHC-b experiments.