Abstract
We study the production of charmonium hybrids in B decays. We use the
operator product expansion and nonrelativistic QCD to organize the various
contributions to this process. We express the decay rate in terms of a few
matrix elements which eventually will be fixed by experimental measurements or
calculated on the lattice. While the Fock state expansion is problematic for
hybrids, in that there is no perturbative large mass limit, the operator
product expansion still provides a model independent framework for
phenomenological calculations of hybrid production and decay. We then use a
simple flux tube model to estimate the branching ratio B -> psi\_g + X, where
psi\_g is a J^PC=0^+- hybrid, the large production of which could help
resolve the low charm multiplicity and semileptonic branching ratio observed in
B decays. We also investigate the possible contributions of tensor charmonium
production. We observe that it is unlikely for either effect to be large enough
to play a significant role in resolving these problems.
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