https://doi.org/10.1007/s100529900201
Theoretical physics
A general analysis of 
determinations from 
decays
Theory Division, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
, CH
Technische Universität München, Physik Department, 85748 Garching, Germany
, DE
Received:
14
June
1999
Published online:
28
September
1999
We present a general parametrization of 
, 
and 
, 
decays, taking into account both electroweak penguin and rescattering effects. This formalism allows – among other things – a generalized implementation of the strategies that were recently proposed by Neubert and Rosner to probe the CKM angle with the help of , decays. In particular, it allows us to investigate the sensitivity of the extracted value of to the basic assumptions of their approach. We find that certain rescattering processes may have an important impact and emphasize that additional hadronic uncertainties may be due to non-factorizable SU(3)-breaking effects. The former can be controlled by using SU(3) flavour symmetry arguments and additional experimental information provided by 
modes. We propose a new strategy to probe the angle with the help of the neutral decays , , which is theoretically cleaner than the , approach. Here rescattering processes can be taken into account by just measuring the CP-violating observables of the decay 
. Finally, we point out that an experimental analysis of 
modes would also be very useful to probe the CKM angle , as well as electroweak penguins, and we critically compare the virtues and weaknesses of the various approaches discussed in this paper. As a by-product, we point out a strategy to include the electroweak penguins in the determination of the CKM angle 
from 
decays.
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