B ->η_c K(η_c^\prime K) decays in QCD factorization

Abstract

We study the exclusive decays of $B$ meson into pseudoscalar charmonium states ${\eta }_c$ and ${\eta }_c^{\prime }$ within the QCD factorization approach and find that the nonfactorizable corrections to naive factorization are infrared safe at leading-twist order. The spectator interactions arising from the kaon twist-3 effects are formally power-suppressed but chirally and logarithmically enhanced. The theoretical decay rates are too small to accommodate the experimental data. On the other hand, we compare the theoretical calculations for $J/\psi ,{\psi }^{\prime }$, and ${\eta }_c,{\eta }_c^{\prime }$, and find that the predicted relative decay rates of these four states are approximately compatible with experimental data.

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