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Complete analysis on QED corrections to $B_{q}\, \to\, \tau^+\, \tau^-$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-10-17 v2

Abstract

Motivated by a dynamical enhancement of the electromagnetic corrections by a power of ΛQCD/mb\Lambda_{\mathrm{QCD}}/m_b in Bd,sμ+μB_{d,s}\, \to\, \mu^+\, \mu^- at next-to-leading order (NLO), we extend the QED factorization effects on the leptonic BB meson decays with light muon leptons to tauonic final states, Bd,sτ+τB_{d,s} \, \to\, \tau^+\, \tau^-, using soft-collinear effective theory (SCET). This extension is necessary owing to the appearance of the large τ\tau mass, which will lead to different power counting in SCET and also different results. We provide a complete NLO electromagnetic corrections to Bd,sτ+τB_{d,s} \, \to\, \tau^+\, \tau^-, which include hard functions and hard-collinear functions below the bottom quark mass scale μb\mu_b. The power enhanced electromagnetic effects from hard-collinear contributions on Bd,sμ+μB_{d,s}\, \to\, \mu^+\, \mu^- discussed before also exist in Bd,sτ+τB_{d,s} \, \to\, \tau^+\, \tau^-. However the logarithm term arising from contributions of hard-collinear photon and lepton virtualities for Bd,sτ+τB_{d,s}\, \to\, \tau^+\, \tau^- is not large as it is in muon case due to the hard-collinear scale of τ\tau mass, which lead to only approximately 0.04%0.04\% QED corrections to the branching fraction of Bd,sτ+τB_{d,s} \, \to\, \tau^+\, \tau^- compared with overall reduction about 0.5%0.5\% in Bd,sμ+μB_{d,s}\, \to\, \mu^+\, \mu^-.

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@article{arxiv.2301.00697,
  title  = {Complete analysis on QED corrections to $B_{q}\, \to\, \tau^+\, \tau^-$},
  author = {Yong-Kang Huang and Yue-Long Shen and Xue-Chen Zhao and Si-Hong Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.00697},
  year   = {2023}
}

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29 pages, 3 figures