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Charming-loop contribution to $B_s\to \gamma\gamma$ decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-11-17 v2

Abstract

We present a detailed theoretical study of nonfactorizable contributions of the charm-quark loop to the amplitude of the BsγγB_s\to \gamma\,\gamma decay. This contribution involves the BB-meson three-particle Bethe-Salpeter amplitude, 0sˉ(y)Gμν(x)b(0)Bˉs(p)\langle 0|\bar s(y)G_{\mu\nu}(x)b(0)|\bar B_s(p)\rangle, for which we take into account constraints from analyticity and continuity. The charming-loop contribution of interest may be described as a correction to the Wilson coefficient C7γC_{7\gamma}, C7γC7γ(1+δC7γ)C_{7\gamma}\to C_{7\gamma}(1+\delta C_{7\gamma}). We calculate an explicit dependence of δC7γ\delta C_{7\gamma} on the parameter λBs\lambda_{B_s}. Taking into account all theoretical uncertainties, δC7γ\delta C_{7\gamma} may be predicted with better than 10\% accuracy for any given value of λBs\lambda_{B_s}. For our benchmark point λBs=0.45\lambda_{B_s}=0.45 GeV, we obtain δC7γ=0.045±0.004\delta C_{7\gamma}=0.045\pm 0.004. Presently, λBs\lambda_{B_s} is not known with high accuracy, but its value is expected to lie in the range 0.3λBs(GeV)0.60.3\le \lambda_{B_s}({\rm GeV})\le 0.6. The corresponding range of δC7γ\delta C_{7\gamma} is found to be 0.02δC7γ0.10.02\le \delta C_{7\gamma}\le 0.1. One therefore expects the correction given by charming loops at the level of at least a few percent.

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@article{arxiv.2309.00358,
  title  = {Charming-loop contribution to $B_s\to \gamma\gamma$ decay},
  author = {Ilia Belov and Alexander Berezhnoy and Dmitri Melikhov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.00358},
  year   = {2023}
}

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21 pages, version to be published in Physical Review D

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