ISOSPIN SYMMETRY BREAKING IN B → K*γ DECAY DUE TO AN EXTRA GENERATION OF VECTOR QUARKS

Abstract

The extra contributions due to an extra generation of vector-like quarks to the isospin symmetry breaking observable associated with the radiative B → K*γ decay is obtained. It is shown that this additional contribution is sensitive to the nonunitarity parameter Usb, which is a measure of the the strength of the non-zero tree-level flavor changing neutral current in this model. The significance of this result is that, once accurate experimental results on the isospin asymmetry becomes available, one can constrain the Usb independent of the mass of the extra quarks and so a much more stringent acceptable model parameter space could be obtained.