In this work, we study the (S, P and D)-wave K + K − contributions to B → K K K decays in the perturbative QCD approach at leading order. Within the two-meson wave functions describing the nonperturbative dynamics in the kaon-pair for different waves, we calculate the branching fractions and the direct C P asymmetries of these decay modes in the corresponding resonance regions. Most of our numerical results are well consistent with the current measurements. We note that the narrow-width approximation is invalid in the quasi-two-body decays B → K f 0 (980) → K K K. For other decays, under the narrow-width approximation we can extract the branching fractions of the corresponding two-body decays involving the intermediate resonant states, and the related branching fractions agree with the current experimental data well. Furthermore, we also predict the branching fractions of the corresponding quasi-two-body decays B → K π + π − , which are expected to be tested in the ongoing LHCb and Belle-II experiments.

Motivated by the observations of the decays B 0 → K * 0 (1430) 0 f0(980) and B 0 → K * 2 (1430) 0 f0(980) from BaBar collaboration, we study the B 0(+) → K * 0,2 (1430) 0(+) f0(980)/σ decays in the perturbative QCD approach for the first time. In the absence of reliable nonperturbative wave functions we only assume the scalar meson f0(980) and σ are two-quark ground states. In our calculations, these decays are all dominated by the hard-scattering emission and annihilation diagrams, while the factorizable emission diagrams are forbidden or suppressed heavily by the vector decay constants. Furthermore, the branching fractions are sensitive to the mixing between f0(980) and σ. Comparing our results with the experimental data, a large mixing angle θ is favored. Taking θ = 145 • , the orders of branching fractions of B → K * 0 (1430) 0 σ, B → K * 2 (1430) 0 σ and B → K * 0,2 (1430) 0 f0(980) are predicted to be 10 −4 , 10 −5 and 10 −6 , respectively, which can be measured in the current experiments such as LHCb and Belle-2. In addition, although these decays are penguin dominant, the mixing also leads to large direct CP asymmetries in these decays. With the precise data in future, our results could shed light on the inner structure of the scalar mesons and can be used to determine the mixing angle of the σ − f0(980) system.

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