Study of the Reactions B to D pi pi and B to D rho pi.pdfVIP

BARI-TH/92-131 December 1992 3 9 Study of the reactions 9 1 ∗ ∗ B → D ππ and B → D ρπ n a J Pietro Colangelo a , Fulvia De Fazio a , Giuseppe Nardulli a,b 5 1 1 v 1 a Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy 4 2 b 1 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit´a di Bari, Italy 0 3 9 / h p - p e h ABSTRACT : v i X ∗ ∗ r We evaluate the non leptonic B meson decays B → D ππ and B → D ρπ , a in the factorization approximation and in the limit of infinitely heavy quarks, assuming the dominance of intermediate positive parity charmed resonances. We find that the branching ratios are of the order 10−3 . Positive parity charmed mesons have been recently investigated by a number of authors [1, 2, 3, 4] in the framework of the Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET). In particular in [1] it has been shown that the semileptonic decays : B → D∗∗ℓν (1) can be described in terms of two universal form factors, τ1/2 (ω ) and τ3/2 (ω ), where ω = v v′ and v , v′ are the B and D∗∗ meson four-velocities respectively. In eq.(1) D∗∗ is one of the four positive parity charmed mesons: 2+ , 1+ , 1+ , 0+ , that one expects in the 3/2 3/2 1/2 1/2 infinite heavy quark mass limit; here we employ the notation JP , where sℓ = 1/2 or 3/2