Flavor SU(3) analysis of charmless B meson decays to two pseudoscalar mesons

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Chiang, Cheng Wei ^a,b   Zhou, Yu Feng ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^c HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

Author keywords

B Physics; Rare Decays; Standard Model; Weak Decays

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846148357     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/12/027     Document Type: Review

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