Resonance contributions from χ _c0 in charmless three-body hadronic B meson decays*

Abstract

Within the framework of perturbative QCD factorization, we investigate the nonfactorizable contributions to these factorization-forbidden Quasi-two-body decays $B_{(s)}\rightarrow h\chi_{c0}\rightarrow h\pi^+\pi^-(K^+K^-)$ with $ h=\pi, K $. We compare our predicted branching ratios for the $B_{(s)}\rightarrow K\chi_{c0}\rightarrow K\pi^+\pi^-(K^+K^-)$ decay with available experiment data as well as predictions by other theoretical studies. The branching ratios of these decays are consistent with data and other theoretical predictions. In the Cabibbo-suppressed decays $B_{(s)}\rightarrow h\chi_{c0}\rightarrow h\pi^+\pi^-(K^+K^-)$ with $h=\bar{K}^0,\pi$, however, the values of the branching ratios are the order of $10^{-7}$ and $10^{-8}$. The ratio $R_{\chi_{c0}}$ between the decay $B^+\rightarrow \pi^+\chi_{c0}\rightarrow \pi^+\pi^+\pi^-$ and $B^+\rightarrow K^+\chi_{c0}\rightarrow K^+\pi^+\pi^-$ and the distribution of branching ratios for different decay modes in invariant mass are considered in this work. Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Article funded by SCOAP3 and published under licence by Chinese Physical Society and the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science and the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and IOP Publishing Ltd.