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Recalculation of QCD Corrections to $b \to s \gamma$ Decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v2

Abstract

We give a more complete calculation of bsγb \to s\gamma decay, including leading log QCD corrections from mtopm_{top} to MWM_W in addition to corrections from MWM_{W} to mbm_b. We have included the full set of dimension-6 operators and corrected numerical mistakes of anomalous dimensions in a previous paper\cite{Cho}. Comparing with the calculations without QCD running from mtopm_{top} to MWM_W\cite{Mis}, the inclusive decay rate is found to be enhanced. At mt=150m_t=150GeV, it results in 12\% enhancement, and for mt=250m_t=250GeV, 15\% is found. The total QCD effect makes an enhanced factor of 4.2 at mt=150m_t=150GeV, and 3.2 for mt=250m_t=250GeV.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9408351,
  title  = {Recalculation of QCD Corrections to $b \to s \gamma$ Decay},
  author = {Chong-Shong Gao and Jing-Liang Hu and Cai-Dian Lu and Zhao-Ming Qiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9408351},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

16 pages, 7 figures (uuencoded ps files), Changes of description. To appear in Phys. Rev. D