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Photon-Tagged Energy Flow in Inclusive Endpoint $B$ Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-07-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We introduce a BB-decay tagged energy correlator (BTEC) to resolve the angular structure of energy flow in inclusive BB decays in the endpoint region, focusing on the direct-photon contribution to BXsγ\overline B\to X_s\gamma. At leading power and at the natural collinear angular scale τsQΛQCD\tau\sim s\sim Q\Lambda_{\rm QCD}, we derive a factorization relation involving the standard hard coefficient and BB-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 316%3 - 16\% migration outside the fixed angular cuts τc=24 GeV2\tau_c=2 - 4~{\rm GeV}^2. With an independently constrained shape function, the angular cumulatives provide a closure test of leading-power endpoint factorization and are sensitive to direct-O7O_7 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}
}

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23 pages, 5 figures, 1 table