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QCD Predictions for Lepton Spectra in Inclusive Heavy Flavour Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-05-05 v1

Abstract

We derive the lepton spectrum in semileptonic beauty decays from a nonperturbative treatment of QCD; it is based on an expansion in 1/mQ1/m_Q with mQm_Q being the heavy flavour quark mass. The leading corrections arising on the 1/mQ1/m_Q level are completely expressed in terms of the difference in the mass of the heavy hadron and the quark. Nontrivial effects appear in 1/mQ21/m_Q^2 terms affecting mainly the endpoint region; they are different for meson and baryon decays as well as for beauty and charm decays.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9304225,
  title  = {QCD Predictions for Lepton Spectra in Inclusive Heavy Flavour Decays},
  author = {I. I. Bigi and M. Shifman and N. G. Uraltsev and A. Vainshtein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9304225},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

6 pages (3 figures are not included), Latex, UND-HEP-93-BIG01, TPI-MINN-93/12-T, UMN-TH-1149/93