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Infrared Divergence and Twist-3 Distribution Amplitudes in QCD Factorization For $B \to PP$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

Since b quark mass is not asymptotically large, chirally enhanced corrections which arise from twist-3 wave functions may be important in B decays. We thus evaluate the hadronic matrix elements with the final light pseudoscalar mesons described by leading twist and twist-3 distribution amplitudes. We find that chirally enhanced corrections can be included consistently in the framework of QCD factorization only if the twist-3 distribution amplitudes are symmetric. We then give explicit expressions of aipa_i^p for BππB \to \pi\pi at the next-to-leading order of αs\alpha_s including chirally enhanced corrections. We also briefly discuss the divergence appeared in the hard spectator contributions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0102077,
  title  = {Infrared Divergence and Twist-3 Distribution Amplitudes in QCD Factorization For $B \to PP$},
  author = {Dongsheng Du and Deshan Yang and Guohuai Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0102077},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, 3 figures, A revised version to appear in Phys. Lett. B