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Dominant decays of bottom mesons into two pseudoscalars are studied in the framework of the six-quark model of the weak interactions of Kobayashi and Maskawa. Some simpleSU (3) relations between the amplitudes are obtained without using any dynamical assumptions.
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Supported in part by the National Science Council of the Republic of China and in part by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Division of High Energy Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. W-7405-ENG-48
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Lin, Wl. Flavor symmetry in two body decays of bottom mesons. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 11, 21–25 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01571552
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