Eur. Phys. J. C 22, 695-705 (2002)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s100520100827

Hadronic B decays to charmless VT final states

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

Received: 6 July 2001
Revised: 8 October 2001
Published online: 7 December 2001

Abstract

Charmless hadronic decays of B mesons to a vector meson (V) and a tensor meson (T) are analyzed in the frameworks of both flavor SU(3) symmetry and generalized factorization. We also make comments on $B$ decays to two tensor mesons in the final states. Certain ways to test the validity of the generalized factorization are proposed, using B → VT decays. We calculate the branching ratios and CP asymmetries using the full effective Hamiltonian including all the penguin operators and the form factors obtained in the non-relativistic quark model of Isgur, Scora, Grinstein and Wise.