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Power-enhanced leading-logarithmic QED corrections to $B_q \to \mu^+\mu^-$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-11-22 v2

Abstract

We provide a systematic treatment of the previously discovered power-enhanced QED corrections to the leptonic decay Bqμ+μB_q\to \mu^+\mu^- (q=d,sq = d, s) in the framework of soft-collinear effective theory (SCET). Employing two-step matching on SCETI_\text{I} and SCETII_\text{II}, 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\sim Q_9. We propose a treatment of the BB-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 Bqμ+μB_q \to \mu^+\mu^- decay that include the double-logarithmic QED and QCD corrections.

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Cite

@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