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Nonfactorizable charming loops in exclusive FCNC $B$ decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-04-24 v1

Abstract

We compare (i) nonfactorizable charm-quark loops in exclusive FCNC B-decays and (ii) three-particle contributions to the amplitude of semileptonic B-decay. Both amplitudes are given in the heavy-quark limit, mbm_b\to\infty, by a convolution of a hard kernel and a three-particle wave function of the BB-meson, 0qˉ(x)Gμν(z)b(0)B(p)\langle 0|\bar q(x)G_{\mu\nu}(z) b(0)|B(p)\rangle. An essential difference between the two amplitudes is that the amplitude of semileptonic BB-decay involves this 3-particle wave function in a collinear light-cone configuration, whereas the amplitude of nonfactorizable charm in FCNC BB-decays involves this 3-particle wave function in a double collinear light-cone configuration.

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@article{arxiv.2508.07261,
  title  = {Nonfactorizable charming loops in exclusive FCNC $B$ decays},
  author = {Dmitri Melikhov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.07261},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Contributed to The XXV International Workshop-School High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory (QFTHEP'270). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2507.23441