In the framework of the perturbative QCD approach, we study the charmless pure weak annihilation Bc->KK decay and find that the branching ratio BR(Bc->KK) O(10^-7). This prediction is so tiny that the Bc->KK decay might be unmeasurable at the Large Hadron Collider.
The Bc --> J/psi pi, etac pi decays are studied with the perturbative QCD approach. It is found that form factors and branching ratios are sensitive to the parameters w, v, f_J/psi and f_etac, where w and v are the parameters of the charmonium wave functions for Coulomb potential and harmonic oscillator potential, respectively, f_J/psi and f_etac are the decay constants of the J/psi and etac mesons, respectively. The large branching ratios and the clear signals of the final states make the Bc --> J/psi pi, etac pi decays to be the prospective channels for measurements at the hadron colliders
The $W$-exchange process $B_{s}$ ${to}$ ${eta}_{c}(J/{psi})D$ is studied with the perturbative QCD approach. Three kinds of wave functions for $B_{s}$ meson and two forms of wave functions for charmonium are considered. It is estimated that branching ratios for $B_{s}$ ${to}$ ${eta}_{c}bar{D}$, ${eta}_{c}D$, $J/{psi}bar{D}$, $J/{psi}D$ decays are the order of $10^{-7}$, $10^{-8}$, $10^{-8}$, $10^{-9}$, respectively, where the largest uncertainty is from wave functions. There is a possibility for measuring these decay in the near future.
The Bc -> BP,BV decays are studied with the QCD factorization approach (where P and V denote pseudoscalar and vector mesons, respectively). Considering the contributions of both current-current and penguin operators, the amplitudes of branching ratios are estimated at the leading approximation. We find that the contributions of the penguin operators are very small due to the serious suppression by the CKM elements. The most promising decay modes are Bc -> Bs Pi, Bs rho, which might be easily detected at hadron colliders.
In this work, we provide estimates of the branching ratios, direct $CP$ asymmetries and triple product asymmetries in $B_{(s)} to (pipi)(Kpi)$ decays in the perturbative QCD approach, where the $pipi$ and $Kpi$ invariant mass spectra are dominated by the vector resonances $rho(770)$ and $K^*(892)$, respectively. Some scalar backgrounds, such as $f_0(500,980) to pipi$ and $K^*_0(1430) to Kpi$ are also accounted for. The $rho(700)$ is parametrized by the Gounaris-Sakurai function. The relativistic Breit-Wigner formula for the $f_0(500)$ and Flatte model for the $f_0(980)$ are adopted to parameterize the time-like scalar form factors $F_S(omega^2)$. We also use the D.V. Bugg model to parameterize the $f_0(500)$ and compare the relevant theoretical predictions from different models. While in the region of $Kpi$ invariant mass, the $K^*_0(1430)$ is described with the LASS lineshape and the $K^*(892)$ is modeled by the Breit-Wigner function. We find that the decay rates for the considered decay modes agree with currently available data within errors. As a by-product, we extract the branching ratios of two-body decays $B_{(s)} to rho(770)K^*(892)$ from the corresponding four-body decay modes and calculate the relevant polarization fractions. Our prediction of longitudinal polarization fraction for $B^0to rho(770)^0 K^*(892)^0$ decay deviates a lot from the recent LHCb measurement, which should be resolved. It is shown that the direct $CP$ asymmetries are large due to the sizable interference between the tree and penguin contributions, but they are small for the tree-dominant or penguin-dominant processes. The PQCD predictions for the triple product asymmetries are small which are expected in the standard model, and consistent with the current data reported by the LHCb Collaboration.Our results can be tested by the future precise data from the LHCb and Belle II experiments.
This PhD dissertation is devoted to a non-perturbative study of QCD correlators. The main tool that we use is lattice QCD. We concentrated our efforts on the study of the main correlators of the pure Yang - Mills theory in the Landau gauge, namely the ghost and the gluon propagators. We are particularly interested in determining the $Lqcd$ parameter. It is extracted by means of perturbative predictions available up to NNNLO. The related topic is the influence of non-perturbative effects that show up as appearance of power-corrections to the low-momentum behaviour of the Green functions. A new method of removing these power corrections allows a better estimate of $Lqcd$. Our result is $Lambda^{n_f=0}_{ms} = 269(5)^{+12}_{-9}$ MeV. Another question that we address is the infrared behaviour of Green functions, at momenta of order and below $Lqcd$. At low energy the momentum dependence of the propagators changes considerably, and this is probably related to confinement. The lattice approach allows to check the predictions of analytical methods because it gives access to non-perturbative correlators. According to our analysis the gluon propagator is finite and non-zero at vanishing momentum, and the power-law behaviour of the ghost propagator is the same as in the free case.