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Wen-Feng Liu

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Radiative generation of chiral vector operators in $b\to s \nu\bar{\nu}$ transition

The recent Belle II evidence for $B^+ \to K^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$, combined with a suppressed branching fraction ratio $R \equiv \mathcal{B}(B^0 \to K^{*0} \nu \bar{\nu}) / \mathcal{B}(B^+ \to K^+ \nu \bar{\nu})$, necessitates new physics contributing to both left- and right-handed vector operators. We perform a systematic topological classification of one-loop completions that radiatively generate both operators without tree-level mediation, and construct two minimal benchmark scenarios: a scalar-rich model and a fermion-rich model. Evaluating these frameworks under specific benchmark mass schemes and four distinct flavor structures, we find a generic anti-correlation where enhancing one decay channel typically suppresses the other. A notable exception is a decoupled flavor configuration within the scalar-rich model, which yields simultaneous constructive interference, reducing $R$ by $4.22\%$ while satisfying all complementary flavor bounds. Under a universal coupling assumption, the scalar-rich model yields exact cancellation in the charged mode, highlighting the non-trivial interplay between flavor structure and loop-generated Wilson coefficients.

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Charmless Quasi-two-body $B$ Decays in Perturbative QCD Approach: Taking $B\to K({\cal R}\to) K^+K^-$ As Examples

Three-body $B$ decays not only significantly broaden the study of $B$ meson decay mechanisms, but also provide information of resonant particles. Because of complicate dynamics, it is very hard for us to study the whole phase space in a specific approach. In this review, we take $B\to K({\cal R}\to) K^+K^-$ decays as examples and show the application of the perturbative QCD (PQCD) approach in studying the quasi-two-body $B$ decays, where two particles move collinearly with large energy and the bachelor one recoils back. To describe the dynamics of two collinear particles, the ($S$, $P$ and $D$)-wave functions of kaon-pair with different waves are introduced. By keeping the transverse momenta, all possible diagrams including the hard spectator diagrams and annihilation ones can be calculated in PQCD approach. Most results are well consistent with the current measurements from BaBar, Belle and LHCb experiments. Moreover, under the narrow-width approximation we can extract the branching fractions of the two-body decays involving the resonant states, and also predict the branching fractions of the corresponding quasi-two-body decays $B\to K(\cal{R}\to )π^+π^-$. All prediction are expected to be tested in the ongoing LHCb and Belle-II experiments.

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