We provide a systematic treatment of the previously discovered power-enhanced QED corrections to the leptonic decay Bq→μ+μ− (q=d,s) in the framework of soft-collinear effective theory (SCET). Employing two-step matching on SCETI and SCETII, and the respective renormalization group equations, we sum the leading-logarithmic QED corrections and the mixed QED-QCD corrections to all orders in the couplings for the matrix element of the semileptonic weak effective operator ∼Q9. We propose a treatment of the B-meson decay constant and light-cone distribution amplitude in the presence of process-specific QED corrections. Finally we include ultrasoft photon radiation and provide updated values of the non-radiative and radiative branching fractions of Bq→μ+μ− decay that include the double-logarithmic QED and QCD corrections.
@article{arxiv.1908.07011,
title = {Power-enhanced leading-logarithmic QED corrections to $B_q \to \mu^+\mu^-$},
author = {Martin Beneke and Christoph Bobeth and Robert Szafron},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.07011},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
49 pages + appendices, 6 figures v2: added erratum concerning the QED part of the soft anomalous dimension. Numerical results are unchanged