Systematic approach to exclusive BVl+lB \to V l^+ l^-, VγV \gamma decays

Jun, 2001
34 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 612 (2001) 25-58
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Report number:
  • PITHA-01-05

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Abstract:
We show -- by explicit computation of first-order corrections -- that the QCD factorization approach previously applied to hadronic two-body decays and to form factor ratios also allows us to compute non-factorizable corrections to exclusive, radiative B meson decays in the heavy quark mass limit. This removes a major part of the theoretical uncertainty in the region of small invariant mass of the photon. We discuss in particular the decays B\to K^* \gamma and B\to K^* l^+l^- and complete the calculation of corrections to the forward-backward asymmetry zero. The new correction shifts the asymmetry zero by 30%, but the result confirms our previous conclusion that the asymmetry zero provides a clean phenomenological determination of the Wilson coefficient C_9.
Note:
  • 34 pages, LaTeX; (v2): reference added, typo in Eq. (93) corrected, Eq. (47) + conventions in Table 1 corrected Report-no: PITHA 01/05
  • 13.25.Hw
  • 12.38.Bx
  • 12.15.-y
  • B: radiative decay
  • B: semileptonic decay
  • K*(892)
  • quantum chromodynamics: factorization
  • correction
  • Feynman graph: higher-order
  • decay: form factor