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QCD Factorization in B -> pi K, pi pi Decays and Extraction of Wolfenstein Parameters

arXiv:hep-ph/0104110 · doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00251-6

Abstract

In the heavy-quark limit, the hadronic matrix elements entering nonleptonic -meson decays into two light mesons can be calculated from first principles including ``nonfactorizable'' strong-interaction corrections. The decay amplitudes are computed including electroweak penguin contributions, SU(3) violation in the light-cone distribution amplitudes, and an estimate of power corrections from chirally-enhanced terms and annihilation graphs. The results are then used to reduce the theoretical uncertainties in determinations of the weak phases and . In that way, new constraints in the plane are derived. Predictions for the branching ratios and CP asymmetries are also presented. A good global fit to the (in part preliminary) experimental data on the branching fractions is obtained without taking recourse to phenomenological models.

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