CP Asymmetries in Single Isospin Channels in B Decays and the Role of Inelastic Final State Interactions

Abstract

The role of inelastic final state interactions in CP asymmetries is investigated in single isospin two-body hadronic decays of the B meson. We demonstrate that in a channel where the CP asymmetry vanishes in absence of inelastic final state interactions, a coupling to a second channel where the asymmetry is nonvanishing can result in an asymmetry in the first channel of the same order as in the second.

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