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Strange-quark mass effects in the $B_s$ meson's light-cone distribution amplitude

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-06-27 v1

Abstract

We investigate the differences between the light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) of BsB_s mesons and BqB_q mesons (with q=u,dq=u,d) induced by a non-vanishing strange-quark mass ms0m_s\neq 0 (compared to mq0m_q \simeq 0). To this end, we consider the so-called ''radiative tail'' which is related to the short-distance expansion of the relevant light-ray operators in heavy-quark effective theory. We extend the calculation of the according matching coefficients, including operators linear in msm_s for both the leading and sub-leading 2-particle LCDAs. Based on a generic parameterization for the leading LCDA, we discuss the effect on its shape on a quantitative level, and compare our findings with recent results on the inverse moments of the BqB_q and BsB_s LCDAs from QCD sum rules.

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@article{arxiv.2306.14686,
  title  = {Strange-quark mass effects in the $B_s$ meson's light-cone distribution amplitude},
  author = {Thorsten Feldmann and Philip Lüghausen and Nicolas Seitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.14686},
  year   = {2023}
}