Reappraisal of SU(3)-flavor breaking in $B\to DP$

Abstract

In light of recently found deviations of the experimental data from predictions from QCD factorization for $B_{(s)}\to D_{(s)}P$ decays, where $P=\{\pi ,K\}$, we systematically probe the current status of the SU(3)${}_F$ expansion from a fit to experimental branching ratio data without any further theory input. We find that the current data are in agreement with the power counting of the SU(3)${}_F$ expansion. While the SU(3)${}_F$ limit is excluded at $>5\sigma$, amplitude-level SU(3)${}_F$-breaking contributions of $\sim 20\%$ suffice for an excellent description of the data. SU(3)${}_F$ breaking is needed in tree ($>5\sigma$) and color-suppressed tree ($2.4\sigma$) diagrams. We are not yet sensitive to SU(3)${}_F$ breaking in exchange diagrams. From the underlying SU(3)${}_F$ parametrization we predict the unmeasured branching ratios $\mathcal{B}({\overline{B}}_s^0\to {\pi }^{-}{D}^{+})=2\mathcal{B}({\overline{B}}_s^0\to {\pi }^0{D}^0)=[0.3,7.2]\times 10^{-6}$ of suppressed decays that can be searched for at the LHCb experiment.

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