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Operator Product Expansion for Exclusive Decays: B^+ ->Ds^+ e+e- and B^+ -> Ds^{*+} e+e-

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

The decays B+Ds,d+e+eB^+\to D_{s,d}^+e^+e^- and B+Ds,d+e+eB^+\to D_{s,d}^{*+}e^+e^- proceed through a weak and an electromagnetic interaction. This is a typical ``long distance'' process, usually difficult to compute systematically. We propose that over a large fraction of phase space a combination of an operator product and heavy quark expansions effectively turns this process into one in which the weak and electromagnetic interactions occur through a local operator. Moreover, we use heavy quark spin symmetry to relate all the local operators that appear in leading order of the operator expansion to two basic ones. We use this operator expansion to estimate the decay rates for B+Ds,d()+e+eB^+\to D_{s,d}^{(*)+}e^+e^-.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9904434,
  title  = {Operator Product Expansion for Exclusive Decays: B^+ ->Ds^+ e+e- and B^+ -> Ds^{*+} e+e-},
  author = {David H. Evans and Benjamin Grinstein and Detlef R. Nolte},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9904434},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure, Latex, published version in PRL