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The Two Roads to "Intrinsic Charm" in B Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-20 v1

Abstract

We describe two complementary ways to show the presence of higher order effects in the 1/m_Q expansion for inclusive B decays that have been dubbed "Intrinsic Charm". Apart from the lessons they can teach us about QCD's nonperturbative dynamics their consideration is relevant for precise extractions of |V_{cb}|: for they complement the estimate of the potential impact of 1/m_Q^4 contributions. We draw semiquantitative conclusions for the expected scale of Weak Annihilation in semileptonic B decays, both for its valence and non-valence components.

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@article{arxiv.0911.3322,
  title  = {The Two Roads to "Intrinsic Charm" in B Decays},
  author = {Ikaros Bigi and Thomas Mannel and Sascha Turczyk and Nikolai Uraltsev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.3322},
  year   = {2014}
}

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17 pages, 3 figures