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Master Integrals for double real radiation emission in heavy-to-light quark decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-09-26 v1

Abstract

We evaluate analytically the master integrals for double real radiation emission in the b --> u W* decay, where b and u are a massive and massless quark, respectively, while W* is an off-shell charged weak boson. Since the W boson can subsequently decay in a lepton anti-neutrino pair, the results of the present paper constitute a further step toward a fully analytic computation of differential distributions for the semileptonic decay of a b quark at NNLO in QCD. The latter partonic process plays a crucial role in the study of inclusive semileptonic charmless decays of B mesons. Our results are expressed in terms of multiple polylogarithms of maximum weight four.

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@article{arxiv.1807.01681,
  title  = {Master Integrals for double real radiation emission in heavy-to-light quark decay},
  author = {Roberto Bonciani and Alessandro Broggio and Leandro Cieri and Andrea Ferroglia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.01681},
  year   = {2018}
}

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21 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables