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$B\to P$ and $B\to V$ Form Factors from $B$-Meson Light-Cone Sum Rules beyond Leading Twist

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-01-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We provide results for the full set of form factors describing semileptonic BB-meson transitions to pseudoscalar mesons π\pi, KK, Dˉ\bar{D} and vector mesons ρ\rho, KK^*, Dˉ\bar{D}^*. Our results are obtained within the framework of QCD Light-Cone Sum Rules with BB-meson distribution amplitudes. We recalculate and confirm the results for the leading-twist two-particle contributions in the literature. Furthermore, we calculate and provide new expressions for the two-particle contributions up to twist four. Following new developments for the three-particle distribution amplitudes, we calculate and provide new results for the complete set of three-particle contributions up to twist four. The form factors are computed numerically at several phase space points using up-to-date input parameters, including correlations across phase space points and form factors. We use a model ansatz for all contributing BB-meson distribution amplitudes that is self-consistent up to twist-four accuracy. We find that the higher-twist two-particle contributions have a substantial impact on the results, and dominate over the three-particle contributions. Our numerical results, including correlations, are provided as machine-readable ancillary files. We discuss the qualitative phenomenological impact of our results on the present bb anomalies.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1811.00983,
  title  = {$B\to P$ and $B\to V$ Form Factors from $B$-Meson Light-Cone Sum Rules beyond Leading Twist},
  author = {Nico Gubernari and Ahmet Kokulu and Danny van Dyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.00983},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

47 pages, 5 tables, 7 figures; v2 as published in JHEP