Enhanced electromagnetic correction to the rare -meson decay
Aug 30, 2017
5 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 120 (2018) 1, 011801
- Published: Jan 6, 2018
e-Print:
- 1708.09152 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- TUM-HEP-1094-17
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Abstract: (APS)
We investigate electromagnetic corrections to the rare B-meson leptonic decay Bs,d→μ+μ- from scales below the bottom-quark mass mb. Contrary to QCD effects, which are entirely contained in the B-meson decay constant, we find that virtual photon exchange can probe the B-meson structure, resulting in a “nonlocal annihilation” effect. We find that this effect gives rise to a dynamical enhancement by a power of mb/ΛQCD and by large logarithms. The impact of this novel effect on the branching ratio of Bs,d→μ+μ- is about 1%, of the order of the previously estimated nonparametric theoretical uncertainty, and four times the size of previous estimates of next-to-leading order QED effects due to residual scale dependence. We update the standard model (SM) prediction to B¯(Bs→μ+μ-)SM=(3.57±0.17)×10-9.- correction: electromagnetic
- quantum electrodynamics: effect
- photon: exchange
- photon: virtual
- higher-order: 1
- scale dependence
- B: branching ratio
- B: rare decay
- B: leptonic decay
- B: decay constant
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