Flavor symmetry analysis of charmless B --> VP decays
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Based upon flavor SU(3) symmetry, we perform global fits to charmless
B decays into one pseudoscalar meson and one vector meson in the final states. We consider different symmetry breaking schemes and find that the one implied by na{ï}ve factorization is slightly favored over the exact symmetry case. The $(\barρ,\barη)$ vertex of the unitarity triangle (UT) constrained by our fits is consistent with other methods within errors. We have found large color-suppressed, electroweak penguin and singlet penguin amplitudes when the spectator quark ends up in the final-state vector meson. Nontrivial relative strong phases are also required to explain the data. The best-fit parameters are used to compute branching ratio and CP asymmetry observables in all of the decay modes, particularly those in the $B_s$ decays to be measured at the Tevatron and LHC experiments.
23 pages and 2 plots; updated with ICHEP'08 data and expanded in discussions and references
23 pages and 2 plots; updated with ICHEP'08 data and expanded in discussions and references