Rapidity resummation for $B$-meson wave functions
Abstract
Transverse-momentum dependent (TMD) hadronic wave functions develop light-cone divergences under QCD corrections, which are commonly regularized by the rapidity of gauge vector defining the non-light-like Wilson lines. The yielding rapidity logarithms from infrared enhancement need to be resummed for both hadronic wave functions and short-distance functions, to achieve scheme-independent calculations of physical quantities. We briefly review the recent progress on the rapidity resummation for -meson wave functions which are the key ingredients of TMD factorization formulae for radiative-leptonic, semi-leptonic and non-leptonic -meson decays. The crucial observation is that rapidity resummation induces a strong suppression of -meson wave functions at small light-quark momentum, strengthening the applicability of TMD factorization in exclusive -meson decays. The phenomenological consequence of rapidity-resummation improved -meson wave functions is further discussed in the context of transition form factors at large hadronic recoil.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1409.1048,
title = {Rapidity resummation for $B$-meson wave functions},
author = {Yue-Long Shen and Yu-Ming Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.1048},
year = {2015}
}
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6 pages, 2 figures, Conference proceedings for the workshop of QCD@work, Giovinazzo (Italy), June 16-19, 2014