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Flavor-singlet light-cone amplitudes and radiative Upsilon decays in SCET

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-06 v1

Abstract

We study the evolution of flavor-singlet, light-cone amplitudes in the soft-collinear effective theory (SCET), and reproduce results previously obtained by a different approach. We apply our calculation to the color-singlet contribution to the photon endpoint in radiative Upsilon decay. In a previous paper, we studied the color-singlet contributions to the endpoint, but neglected operator mixing, arguing that it should be a numerically small effect. Nevertheless the mixing needs to be included in a consistent calculation, and we do just that in this work. We find that the effects of mixing are indeed numerically small. This result combined with previous work on the color-octet contribution and the photon fragmentation contribution provides a consistent theoretical treatment of the photon spectrum in radiative Upsilon decay.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0407259,
  title  = {Flavor-singlet light-cone amplitudes and radiative Upsilon decays in SCET},
  author = {Sean Fleming and Adam K. Leibovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0407259},
  year   = {2016}
}

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19 pages with 8 figures