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Factorization fits to charmless strangeless B decays

W. N. Cottingham, I. B. Whittingham, F. F. Wilson

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0501040

Abstract

We present fits to charmless strangeless hadronic B decay data for mean branching ratios and CP-violating asymmetries using the QCD factorization model of Beneke et al. Apart from one CP-violating parameter, the model gives a very good representation of 26 measured data. We find the CKM angle alpha = (93.5 +/- 8.4 -1.3) degrees and to be quite stable to plausible "charming penguin" corrections.

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