Wednesday, October 17, 2012

1210.4453 (V. M. Braun et al.)

Soft contribution to $B\to γ\ell ν_\ell$ and the $B$-meson
distribution amplitude
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V. M. Braun, A. Khodjamirian
The $B\to \gamma \ell \nu_\ell$ decay at large energies of the photon receives a numerically important soft-overlap contribution which is formally of the next-to-leading order in the expansion in the inverse photon energy. We point out that this contribution can be calculated within the framework of heavy-quark expansion and soft-collinear effective theory, making use of dispersion relations and quark-hadron duality. The soft-overlap contribution is obtained in a full analogy with the similar contribution to the $\gamma^* \gamma \to \pi$ transition form factor. This result strengthens the case for using the $B\to \gamma \ell \nu_\ell$ decay to constrain the $B$-meson distribution amplitude and determine its most important parameter, the inverse moment $\lambda_B$.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.4453

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