Systematics of soft final-state interactions in B decays

Authors

JF Donoghue, University of Massachusetts AmherstFollow
Eugene Golowich, University of Massachusetts - AmherstFollow
AA Petrov
JM Soares

Publication Date

1996

Journal or Book Title

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Abstract

By using very general and well established features of soft strong interactions we show, contrary to conventional expectations, that (i) soft final-state interactions (FSI) do not disappear for large mB, (ii) inelastic rescattering is expected to be the main source of soft FSI phases, and (iii) FSI which interchange charge and/or flavors are suppressed by a power of mB, but are quite likely to be significant at mB≃5GeV. We briefly discuss the influence of these interactions on tests of CP violation and on theoretical calculations of weak decays.

Comments

This is a pre-published version which is collected from arXiv. The published version is at http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v77/i11/p2178_1.

Pages

2178-2181

Volume

77

Issue

11

Recommended Citation

Donoghue, JF; Golowich, Eugene; Petrov, AA; and Soares, JM, "Systematics of soft final-state interactions in B decays" (1996). PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 134.
Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/physics_faculty_pubs/134