title: Anomalous enhancement of a penguin hadronic matrix element in B-->K(eta').
abstract: We estimate the density matrix element for the pi(0), eta, and eta(') production from the vacuum in the large-N(c) limit. As a consequence, we find that the QCD axial anomaly leads to highly nontrivial corrections to the usual flavor SU(3) relations between B(0)-->K(0)pi(0), B(0)-->K(0) eta, and B(0)-->K(0)eta(') decay amplitudes. These corrections may explain why the B-->Keta(') branching ratio is about 6 times larger than the B-->Kpi one.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Physique Theorique and Centre for Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3) Université Catholique de Louvain, Chemin du Cyclotron 2, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. gerard@fyma.ucl.ac.be
authors.forename: J-M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gerard
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kou