Multiplicity Distributions in $b\to sgluon$ Decays

Abstract

The final states for the process $b\to s\gamma$ have been extensively discussed in the literature. Similarly-detailed analyses for the case $b\to sgluon$ have not been performed. Generally this process is searched for in 2-body decays such as ${\mathrm{B}}^0\to {\mathrm{K}}^{+}{\pi }^{-}$. We present simple arguments to suggest that most of the time the quark-level process will give rise to final states with rather high multiplicities. Comments are made about the applicability of these results to $b\to dgluon$ and hadronic $b\to u$ decays.

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