Analysis of three-body charmed $B$ meson decays $B \to {D}(V^* \to){V P}$

Abstract

We systematically analyze the decays $B_{(s)} \to D_{(s)} (V^* \to)\, V\, P$, where $V^*$ represents a vector resonance ($\rho, \, \omega$ or $K^*$), and $V P$ denotes the final-state meson pairs $ \omega\, \pi$, $ \rho\, \pi$ and $ \rho \, K$. The intermediate subprocesses $B_{(s)} \to D_{(s)} V^*$ are calculated in the factorization-assisted topological-amplitude approach, while the intermediate resonant states $V^*$ are modeled using a relativistic Breit-Wigner distribution, subsequently decaying into $VP$ through strong interactions. We predict the off-shell effects of the ground-state resonances ($\rho,\, \omega, \, K^*$) in $B_{(s)} \to D_{(s)} (V^* \to )V P$. Our results show that the virtual contributions from $\rho \to \omega \, \pi$, $\omega \to \rho\, \pi$, and $K^* \to \rho\, K$ are crucial for these three-body decays, $B_{(s)} \to D_{(s)} V\, P$. In particular, the branching fractions arising from the $\rho$ and $\omega$ virtual effects can be comparable to the total decay rates of $B_{(s)} \to D_{(s)} \omega\, \pi$ and $B_{(s)} \to D_{(s)} \rho\, \pi$, respectively. Decays with branching fractions of order $10^{-6}-10^{-4}$ are expected to be measurable at Belle II and LHCb. Compared with previous perturbative QCD predictions for $B_{(s)} \to D_{(s)} (\rho \to)\, \omega\, \pi$, our results are consistent but exhibit higher precision.