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Taming the higher power corrections in semileptonic B decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-10-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study the effect of dimension 7 and 8 operators on inclusive semileptonic B decays and the extraction of |Vcb|. Using moments of semileptonic B decay spectra and information based on the Lowest-Lying State saturation Approximation (LLSA) we perform a global fit of the nonperturbative parameters of the heavy quark expansion including for the first time the O(1/mb^{4,5}) contributions. Higher power corrections appear to have a very small effect on the extraction of |Vcb|, independently of the weight we attribute to the LLSA.

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@article{arxiv.1606.06174,
  title  = {Taming the higher power corrections in semileptonic B decays},
  author = {Paolo Gambino and Kristopher J. Healey and Sascha Turczyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.06174},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures, small changes to match accepted publication in PLB