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The Rule of Discarding $1/N_c$ in Inclusive Weak Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-22 v2

Abstract

We continue to investigate the effects of the (dominant) subleading operator of the σH\vec\sigma\vec H type in the 1/Nc1/N_c parts of the weak nonleptonic amplitudes. If the previous work concentrated on exclusive decays now we analyse inclusive widths in a certain kinematic limit. Deviations from the parton model predictions are found due to soft-gluon color exchange. In the interference (i.e. 1/Nc1/N_c) terms they are stronger than in the non-interference terms. The sign is negative so that the 1/Nc1/N_c parts tend to cancel. The absolute value of the effect is of order 1 in D-mesons and of order 0.50 in B mesons.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9207236,
  title  = {The Rule of Discarding $1/N_c$ in Inclusive Weak Decays},
  author = {B. Blok and M. Shifman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9207236},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

preprint NSF-ITP-92-103,TPI-MINN-33/T, 27 pages +2 fig. we eliminate several minor misprints