Publisher’s Note: Annihilation in factorization-suppressedBdecays involving a1P11meson and search for new-physics signals [Phys. Rev. D72, 034009 (2005)]

Abstract

The recent measurements of large transverse fractions in B → φK * decays represent a challenge for theory. It was shown that the QCD penguin annihilation could contribute to the transverse amplitudes such that the observation could be accounted for in the Standard Model. However, if one resorts to new physics for resolutions, then the relevant 4-quark operators should be tensor-like or scalar-like. We show that the same annihilation effects could remarkably enhance the longitudinal rates of factorization-suppressed B 0 → h 1 (1380)K * 0 , b 1 (1235)K * 0 modes to be (12.0 +4.1 −3.0 ) × 10 −6 and (7.0 ± 3.5) × 10 −6 , respectively, but attend to be cancelled in the transverse components. Nevertheless, the transverse fractions of B → h 1 (1380)K * can become sizable due to new-physics contributions. The measurements of these decays can thus help us to realize the role of annihilation topologies in charmless B decays and offer a theoretically clean window to search for the evidence of new physics.

Calculation of the branching ratio ofB−→hc+K−in perturbative QCD

“…The perturbative QCD (PQCD) approach is believed to be successful for estimating transition rates of B and D into light mesons [17], even though there is still dispute about its applicability [18]. Generally, for two-body non-leptonic decays of B meson, both factorizable and non-factorizable diagrams contribute to the transition amplitudes, however, for B − → h c K − , the contributions from factorizable diagrams disappear since the conservation of G parity leads to 0|cγ µ γ 5 c|h c = 0 [20]. Therefore, the decay rate of [19,21] where both factorizable and non-factorizable diagrams contribute.…”

Erratum:B→K1γdecays in the light-cone QCD sum rules [Phys. Rev. D77, 094023 (2008)]

“…The BaBar collaboration has recently reported the observation of the decaysB 0 → b ± 1 π ∓ , b [14,15], andB 0 → K − 1 (1270)π + , K − 1 (1400)π + , a + 1 K − , B − → a − 1K 0 , f 1 (1285)K − , f 1 (1420)K − [16]. The related phenomenologies have been studied in the literature [17,18,19,20,21,22,23].…”

Weak annihilation topologies and final state interactions inD→PPdecays

“…The errors in B FSI and 2 i are due to the variation of F DK 0 0. [5,28,29]. Note that we obtain a twofold solution for X 0 A .…”