An improved observable for the forward-backward asymmetry in B K^^+^- and B_s ^+^-

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2010)121zbMATH Open1294.81359arXiv1007.4015OpenAlexW3098049191MaRDI QIDQ406743FDOQ406743

Amarjit Soni, Enrico Lunghi

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the decay B -> K* l+ l- in the QCD factorization approach and propose a new integrated observable whose dependence on the form factors is almost negligible, consequently the non--perturbative error is significantly reduced and indeed its overall theoretical error is dominated by perturbative scale uncertainties. The new observable we propose is the ratio between the integrated forward--backward asymmetry in the [4,6] GeV^2 and [1,4] GeV^2 dilepton invariant mass bins. This new observable is particularly interesting because, when compared to the location of the zero of the FBA spectrum, it is experimentally easier to measure and its theoretical uncertainties are almost as small; moreover it displays a very strong dependence on the phase of the Wilson coefficient C_10 that is otherwise only accessible through complicated CP violating asymmetries. We illustrate the new physics sensitivity of this observable within the context of few extensions of the Standard Model, namely the SM with four generations, an MSSM with non--vanishing source of flavor changing neutral currents in the down squark sector and a Z' model with tree level flavor changing couplings.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4015

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zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelQCDB-physicsrare decays

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantum scattering theory (81U99) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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