Analysis of CKM-Favored Quasi-Two-Body $B \to D (R\to) K \pi$ Decays in PQCD Approach

TL;DR

This paper investigates CKM-favored quasi-two-body B decays involving D and Kπ states using the PQCD approach, calculating branching fractions that align with experimental data and providing predictions for future tests.

Contribution

The study applies the PQCD framework to analyze B to D Kπ decays, introducing wave functions for the Kπ pair and extracting branching fractions consistent with experimental results.

Findings

Calculated branching fractions agree with experimental data.

Extracted two-body decay branching ratios match previous theoretical and experimental results.

No CP asymmetries are predicted in these decays within the Standard Model.

Abstract

LHCb Collaboration studied the resonant structure of $B_s\to \overline{D}^0K^-\pi^+$ decays using the Dalitz plot analysis technique, based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $3.0{\rm fb}^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision. The $K^-\pi^+$ components have been analyzed in the amplitude model, where the decay amplitude is modeled to be the resonant contributions with respect to the intermediate resonances $K^*(892)$, $K_0^*(1430)$ and $K_2^*(1430)$. Motivated by the experimental results, we investigate the color-favored quasi-two-body $B \to \overline{D}^0K\pi$ decays in the framework of the perturbative QCD (PQCD) approach. We calculate the the branching fractions by introducing the appropriate wave functions of $K\pi$ pair. Our results are in agreement well the available data, and others can be tested in LHCb and Belle-II experiments. Using the narrow-width-approximation, we also extract the branching fractions of the corresponding two-body $B\to \overline D R$ decays, which agree to the previous theoretical calculations and the experimental data within the errors. There are no $CP$ asymmetries in these decays in the standard model, because these decays are all governed by only the tree operators.