Flavor dependence of annihilation parameters in QCD factorization

Abstract

For $B_{d,s}\to {\pi }^{\mp }{K}^{\pm }$ and $K^{(\ast )}{K}^{(\ast )}$ decays, the flavor symmetry breaking effects may be particularly small since the final state interactions should be the same between the corresponding $B_d$ and $B_s$ decays due to the charge conjugation symmetry of the final states. This is consistent with the newly measured direct CP asymmetry of $B_s\to {\pi }^{+}{K}^{-}$. These decays are thus supposed to be important in testing the Standard Model and in probing new physics effects. However, the observation of pure annihilation decay $B_s\to {\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ appears to imply a large annihilation scenario with ${\rho }_A\sim 3$, in contrast to the case of ${\rho }_A\sim 1$ in $B_{u,d}$ decays in the framework of QCD factorization. This seems to indicate unexpectedly large flavor symmetry breaking effects between the annihilation amplitudes of $B_s$ and $B_{u,d}$ decays. This apparent contradiction could be resolved by noticing that there is a priori no reason to justify the common practice of assuming the universality of annihilation parameters for different Dirac structures of effective operators. We then argue that, for $B_{d,s}\to {\pi }^{\mp }{K}^{\pm }$ decays, the flavor symmetry breaking effects of annihilation amplitudes have all been included in the initial state decay constants and are thus small. But the flavor symmetry breaking effects in $B_{d,s}\to K^{(\ast )}{K}^{(\ast )}$ decays are likely to be much larger, as part of the annihilation topologies of $B_s\to KK$ decay could be related to $B_s\to {\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ decay. Therefore when new physics effects are searched for in these decay channels, care must be taken to consider the potentially large flavor symmetry breaking effects in more details.

17 pages, 5 figures, published in Phys. Rev. D

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