Eur. Phys. J. C (2009) 59: 683-689
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0811-3

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Contribution of final-state interaction to the branching ratio of B→J/ψ D

¹ School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
² Centro de Física Computacional, Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004-516, Coimbra, Portugal
³ Department of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China

^* e-mail: liuxiang@teor.fis.uc.pt

Received: 22 July 2008
Published online: 28 November 2008

Abstract

To test the validity of perturbative QCD (pQCD) and investigate its range of application, one should look for a suitable process. B→J/ψ D is a promising candidate. The linear momentum of the products is relatively small, so that there may exist a region where exchanged gluons are soft and the perturbative treatment may fail, so that the non-perturbative effect would be significant. We attribute such non-perturbative QCD effects to the long-distance final-state interaction (FSI) which is estimated in this work. We find that the contribution from the FSI to the branching ratio is indeed sizable and may span the rather wide range of 10⁻⁶∼10⁻⁵ and cover a region where the pQCD prediction is of the same order. A more accurate measurement of its branching ratio may provide important information about the application region of pQCD and help to clarify the picture of inelastic rescattering (i.e. FSI), which is generally believed to play an important role in B decays.