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B0 - anti-B0 mixing beyond factorization

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v1

Abstract

We present a calculation of the B0 - anti-B0 mixing matrix element in the framework of QCD sum rules for three-point functions. We compute alpha_s corrections to a three-point function at the three-loop level in QCD perturbation theory, which allows one to extract the matrix element with next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy. This calculation is imperative for a consistent evaluation of experimentally-measured mixing parameters since the coefficient functions of the effective Hamiltonian for B0 - anti-B0 mixing are known at NLO. We find that radiative corrections violate factorization at NLO; this violation is under full control and amounts to 10%.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0306032,
  title  = {B0 - anti-B0 mixing beyond factorization},
  author = {J. G. Korner and A. I. Onishchenko and A. A. Petrov and A. A. Pivovarov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0306032},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX2e

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