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Intrinsic Charm in B-Meson Decays

S. Gardner

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0209080

Abstract

Light cone hadron wave functions support Fock states of arbitrarily high particle number: their heavy quark content arises naturally through QCD interactions. We discuss what role c c pairs, intrinsic to a hadron's structure, can play in B-meson decays. The effects can be prominent in hadronic decays for which the tree-level contributions are Cabibbo-suppressed, as in B πK decay, and they mimic ``charming penguin'' contributions.

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