Isospin Symmetry Breaking in B->K^* \gamma Decay due to an Extra Generation of Vector Quarks

Abstract

The extra contributions due to an extra generation of vector-like quarks to the isospin symmetry breaking observable associated with the radiative B->K^* \gamma decay is obtained. It is shown that this additional contribution is sensitive to the nonunitarity parameter U^{sb}, which is a measure of the the strength of the non-zero tree-level flavor changing neutral current in this model. The significance of this result is that, once accurate experimental resultson the isospin asymmetry becomes available, one can constrain the U^{sb} independent of the mass of the extra quarks and so a much more stringent acceptablemodel parameter space could be obtained.

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures, To appear in the proceedings of the MRST 2005 conference