Radiative Semileptonic Decays of Beautiful Hadrons
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2026-05-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We derive predictions for the hadronic matrix elements of radiative semileptonic decays of beautiful hadrons within Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET), relevant for future measurements at Belle II and LHCb. Our study considers Lambda(b) -> Lambda(c), Lambda(*)(c1) and B -> D(*), D** transitions. The symmetries of HQET highly constrain the number of structure-dependent form factors in all cases. In the soft and sub-leading soft regions, all the form factors are fully determined in terms of non-radiative Isgur-Wise functions and the magnetic dipole moments of the heavy hadrons. The structure of higher order corrections is also briefly discussed.
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@article{arxiv.2512.05186,
title = {Radiative Semileptonic Decays of Beautiful Hadrons},
author = {Federico Cima and Michele Papucci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.05186},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
32 pages, 4 figures, 1 table; v2: matches published version