Photon-Tagged Energy Flow in Inclusive Endpoint $B$ Decays
Abstract
We introduce a -decay tagged energy correlator (BTEC) to resolve the angular structure of energy flow in inclusive decays in the endpoint region, focusing on the direct-photon contribution to . At leading power and at the natural collinear angular scale , we derive a factorization relation involving the standard hard coefficient and -meson shape function together with a new measured quark jet function; no new leading-power nonperturbative function is introduced. We calculate the measured jet function at one-loop accuracy and verify that its angular integral reproduces the standard inclusive quark jet function. For the central Bosch--Lange--Neubert--Paz parameter set, an illustrative benchmark gives migration outside the fixed angular cuts . With an independently constrained shape function, the angular cumulatives provide a closure test of leading-power endpoint factorization and are sensitive to direct- power corrections and resolved-photon effects. The BTEC thereby adds information on the angular structure of the inclusive recoil jet beyond the ordinary photon spectrum and may improve signal--background discrimination when their energy-flow profiles differ.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.27367,
title = {Photon-Tagged Energy Flow in Inclusive Endpoint $B$ Decays},
author = {Shuai Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.27367},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
23 pages, 5 figures, 1 table