Revisiting the Kπ puzzle in the pQCD factorization approach

In this paper,we calculated the branching ratios and direct CP violation of the four B→Kπ decays with the inclusion of all currently known next-to-leading order(NLO) contributions by employing the perturbative QCD(pQCD) factorization approach.We found that(a) Besides the 10%enhancement from the NLO vertex corrections,the quark-loops and magnetic penguins,the NLO contributions to the form factors can provide an additional~15%enhancement to the branching ratios,and lead to a very good agreement with the data;(b) The NLO pQCD predictions are A_(CP)~(dir)(B~0→K~+π~0)=(-6.5±3.1)%and A_(CP)~(dir)(B~+→K~+π~0)=(2.2±2.0)%,become well consistent with the data due to the inclusion of the NLO contributions.