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The systematic study of $B\to \pi$ form factors in pQCD approach and its reliability

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

The study of exclusive B decays in perturbative QCD are complicated by the endpoint problem. In order to perform the perturbative calculation, the Sudakov effects are introduced to regulate the endpoint singularity. We provide a systematic analysis with leading and next-to-leading twist corrections for BπB\to\pi form factors in pQCD approach. The intrinsic transverse momentum dependence of hadronic wave function and threshold resummation effects are included in pQCD approach. There are two leading twist B meson distribution amplitudes (or generally wave functions) in general. The QCD equations of motion provide important constraints on B meson wave functions. The reliability of pQCD approach in \bpi form factors is discussed. 70% of the result comes from the region αs(t)/π<0.2\alpha_s(t)/\pi<0.2 and 38% comes from the region where the momentum transfer t1\GeVt\geq 1\GeV. The conceptual problems of pQCD approach are discussed in brief. Our conclusion is that pQCD approach in the present form cannot provide a precise prediction for \bpi transition form factors.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0202018,
  title  = {The systematic study of $B\to \pi$ form factors in pQCD approach and its reliability},
  author = {Zheng-Tao Wei and Mao-Zhi Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0202018},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

30 pages, latex, some typos corrected, to appear in Nucl. Phys. B