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Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4333 - 4336 (1997)

B Decays Involving η and η′ in Light of the B→Kη′ Process
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Amol S. Dighe
Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60615

Michael Gronau
Theoretical Physics Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

Jonathan L. Rosner
Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60615

Received 4 August 1997

The observation by the CLEO Collaboration of the decays B(+,0)→K(+,0)η′ is shown to imply a significant but still uncertain contribution from the flavor-SU(3)-singlet component of the η′. By comparing the rate for these decays with others for decays of B mesons to two pseudoscalar mesons, it is shown that the prospects for observing CP-violating asymmetries in certain modes such as B+→π+η and B+→π+η′ are quite good.


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URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v79/p4333
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.4333
PACS: 13.25.Hw, 11.30.Er, 12.15.Ji, 14.40.Nd

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