We discuss the possibility of a large electroweak penguin contribution in $\overrightarrow{B}K\pi$ from recent experimental data. The several relations among the branching ratios which realize when the contributions from tree type and electroweak penguin contributions are small compared with the gluon penguin can be treated as the expansion parameters do not satisfy the data. The difference comes from the $r^2$ term which is the square of the ratio with the gluon penguin diagram and the main contribution comes from the electroweak penguin diagram. We find that the electroweak penguin contribution may be too large to explain the experimental data. If the magnitude estimated from experiment is quite large compared with the theoretical estimation, then it may be including some new physics effects.

• Received 27 June 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.68.054023