Extracting $γ$ from three-body $B$-meson decays

Abstract

To date, the weak-phase $γ$ has been measured using two-body $B$-meson decays such as $B\to D K$ and $B\to Dπ$, whose amplitudes contain only tree-level diagrams. But $γ$ can also be extracted from three-body charmless hadronic $B$ decays. Since the amplitudes for such decays contain both tree- and loop-level diagrams, $γ$ obtained in this way is sensitive to new physics that can enter into these loops. The comparison of the values of $γ$ extracted using tree-level and loop-level methods is therefore an excellent test for new physics. In this talk, we will show how U-spin and flavor-SU(3) symmetries can be used to develop methods for extracting $γ$ from $B\to Kππ$ and $B\to KK{\bar K}$ decays. We describe a successful implementation of the flavor-SU(3) symmetry method applied to BaBar data.

3 pages, Proceedings of the the 10th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM2018), 17 - 21 September, 2018, Heidelberg, Germany