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Factorization of multiparticle contributions to amplitudes of B-meson weak decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-12-10 v2

Abstract

We show that multiparticle contributions to amplitudes of weak decays of the generic topology (heavy quark hits some intermediate point of the propagator line joining the end-points from which momenta qq and qq' are emitted) is given in the heavy quark limit and at the leading order in αs\alpha_s by the convolution of (i) hard kernel composed of highly virtual propagators of light degrees of freedom and (ii) the BB-meson multiparticle wave function, 0ϕ(x)ϕ(x1)ϕ(xn)ϕb(0)ϕ(xn)ϕ(x1)ϕ(x)B(p)\langle 0|\phi(x)\phi(x_1)\dots\phi(x_n)\phi_b(0)\phi(x'_{n'})\dots\phi(x'_1)\phi(x')|B(p)\rangle, in a {\it double-collinear} light-cone configuration: the coordinates x,x1,...,xnx,x_1,...,x_n are ordered and aligned along the light-like 4-vector aμa_\mu, a2=0a^2=0, qμaμq_\mu\propto a_\mu, while the coordinates x,x1,...,xnx',x_1',...,x'_{n'} are ordered and aligned along the light-like 4-vector aμa'_\mu, a2=0a'^2=0, qμaμq'_\mu\propto a'_\mu, aa0a'a\ne 0. Corrections to this factorization formula are suppressed by powers of ΛQCD/MB\Lambda_{\rm QCD}/M_B.

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@article{arxiv.2507.23441,
  title  = {Factorization of multiparticle contributions to amplitudes of B-meson weak decays},
  author = {Dmitri Melikhov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.23441},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10 pages, Remarks on the radiative corrections (Section 5) have been added, Version accepted to EPJC