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Topological diagram analysis of bottom meson decays emitting two pseudoscalar mesons

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We investigate weak nonleptonic decays of B mesons emitting two pseudoscalar (P) mesons for Cabibbo-Kobayshi-Maskawa enhanced as well as suppressed modes. We employ the Topological Diagram approach at SU(3) level for various weak quark-level processes responsible for these decays. Several relations are obtained among their decays amplitudes and the corresponding branching fractions for which some experimental data exist.

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  1. Department of Physics, Punjabi University, Patiala, 147002, India

    Maninder Kaur & R. C. Verma

  2. Department of Physics and IPAP, Yonsei University, Seoul, 120-749, Korea

    Rohit Dhir

  3. School of Basic and Applied Sciences, GGS Indraprastha University, Dwarka, Delhi, 110075, India

    Avinash Sharma

  4. Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India

    R. C. Verma

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Kaur, M., Dhir, R., Sharma, A. et al. Topological diagram analysis of bottom meson decays emitting two pseudoscalar mesons. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 12, 230–237 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S154747711502017X

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