Abstract
Light cone hadron wave functions support Fock states of arbitrarily high particle number: their heavy quark content arises naturally through QCD interactions. We discuss what role cc̄ pairs, intrinsic to a hadron's structure, can play in B-meson decays. The effects can be prominent in hadronic decays for which the tree-level contributions are Cabibbo-suppressed, as in B → πK decay, and they mimic "charming penguin" contributions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 61-66 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements |
| Volume | 115 |
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| State | Published - Feb 2003 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is a pleasure to acknowledge Stan Brodsky for an engaging and fruitful collaboration, as well as the SLAC Theory Group for its hospitality. I thank the conference organizers for the invitation to speak and the U.S. Department of Energy for support under contracts DE-FG02-96ER40989 and DE-AC03-76SF00515.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics