Lepton angular asymmetries in semileptonic charmful B decays.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - p h / 0 5 0 3 1 2 3 v 1 1 4 M a r 2 0 0 5 Lepton angular asymmetries in semileptonic charmful B decays Chuan-Hung Chena? and Chao-Qiang Gengb? aDepartment of Physics, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan bDepartment of Physics, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsin-Chu 300, Taiwan (Dated: February 2, 2008) Abstract We study the lepton angular distributions in B → D(?)?ν? decays. The lepton angular asymme- tries in the decays with the general effective interactions are examined. We demonstrate that the asymmetries are sensitive to new physics with a right-handed quark current. ? Email: physchen@mail.ncku.edu.tw ? Email: geng@phys.nthu.edu.tw 1 Although the standard model (SM) has been accepted to be a good description of physics below the Fermi scale, it is believed that there is a more fundamental theory at a higher energy scale. Such theory will generate low energy effective couplings to various processes, which may differ from those in the SM. To find out the differences, one needs to search for physical observables which are sensitive to the new physics. We shall concentrate on those observables in the semileptonic charmful B decays B? → D(?)?ν?? due to the large number of B’s at the B factories. New physics effects related to the inclusive decays of b → c?ν? have been studied extensively in the literature [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. In particular, the exclusive decays B? → D(?)?ν?? were used to constrain the scalar interactions [3] as well as the vector and axial-vector interactions [4] beyond the SM. Moreover, T violating polarization asymmetries in these exclusive modes were studied [5] in terms of all possible new interactions. In this report, we examine some asymmetrical physical observables related to the lepton angular distributions in B? → D(?)?ν?? with the general effective interactions. To include the new physics effects, we start with the generalized effective Lagrangian for the process b → c?ν? as Leff = GFVcb√ 2 { ? cγα(1? γ