A new look at hadronic B decays

Abstract

We present a detailed study of non-leptonic two-body decays of B mesons based on a generalized factorization hypothesis. We discuss the structure of non-factorizable corrections and present arguments in favour of a simple phenomenological description of their effects. We discuss tests of the factorization hypothesis and show how it may be used to determine unknown decay constants. In particular, we obtain f_{D_s}=(234\pm 25) MeV and f_{D_s^*}=(271\pm 33) MeV.

7 pages, 2 figures, uses espcrc2.sty (included); to appear in the Proceedings of the High-Energy Physics Euroconference on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD '97), Montpellier, France, 3-9 July 1997

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