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Using the method of QCD light-cone sum rules, we calculate the $B \to \pi\pi$ hadronic matrix elements with annihilation topology. We obtain a finite result, including the related strong phase. Numerically, the annihilation effects in $B\to…
We describe a light-cone QCD sum rule calculation of the $B_s\to f_0(980)$ transition form factors useful to predict the branching ratios of the rare decays $B_s \to f_0 \ell^+ \ell^-$, $B_s \to f_0 \nu \bar \nu$ and of $B_s\to J/\psi f_0$…
Using the most general form of the interpolating currents, the coupling constants $g_{\Sigma_b\Sigma_b\pi}$ and $g_{\Sigma_c\Sigma_c\pi}$ are calculated within the light cone QCD sum rules approach. It is found that…
The strong g-coupling characterizes the interaction of heavy mesons with pions in typical vertices $H^*H\pi$, $H^*H^*\pi$, where $(H^*;H)$ stands for vector and pseudoscalar $(B^*;B)$ or $(D^*;D)$ heavy mesons. Its estimation by different…
We study $B\to \pi\pi$ decay with a modified perturbative QCD approach. The branching ratios and $CP$ violation are calculated with the transverse momenta of partons considered. Sudakov factor associated with each meson is included to…
The form factors and the coupling constant of the $B_s B^* K $ and $B_s B K^*$ vertices are calculated using the QCD sum rules method. Three point correlation functions are computed considering both the heavy and light mesons off-shell in…
The isospin-breaking vector meson decay constants are determined from a QCD sum rule analysis of the vector current correlator $<O| T(V^3_\mu V^8_\nu)| O>$, using a recently proposed implementation of the finite energy sum rule approach.…
The strong coupling constants of light pseudoscalar mesons with spin--3/2 and spin--1/2 heavy baryons are calculated in the framework of light cone QCD sum rules. It is shown that each class of transitions among members of the sextet…
In this article, we calculate the contribution from the nonfactorizable soft hadronic matrix element to the decay $B^0\to \chi_{c1} \pi^0$ with the light-cone QCD sum rules. The numerical results show that its contribution is rather large…
Compared with lattice QCD, isospin breaking of heavy-meson decay constants from QCD sum rules agrees for $D$ mesons but disagrees (by a factor of four) for $B$ mesons.
To leading order in alpha_s, the leading and non-leading 1/m_b corrections to the excited g_B^(**) meson coupling g_B^(**)BPi is calculated in the framework of QCD spectral moment sum rules in the full theory. Our prediction is in good…
We demonstrate the feasibility of determining the strong coupling constant, $\alpha_s$, from the inclusive semileptonic decay width of $B$ mesons. We express the semileptonic $B$ decay width as a function of $\alpha_s(5\mathrm{\,GeV})$, the…
By use of current experimental data, we carry out an isospin analysis of the weak decays $B\rightarrow D\pi, D^{*}\pi$ and $D\rho$. It is found that only in $B\rightarrow D\rho$ the strong phase shift of two different isospin amplitudes can…
We compute perturbative corrections to $B \to \pi$ form factors from QCD light-cone sum rules with $B$-meson distribution amplitudes. Applying the method of regions we demonstrate factorization of the vacuum-to-$B$-meson correlation…
We discuss the leptonic decay constants of heavy--light mesons by means of Borel QCD sum~rules in the local-duality (LD) limit of infinitely large Borel mass parameter. In this limit, for an appropriate choice of the invariant structures in…
We present an improved calculation of the $HHV$ ($H=D_{(s)},\, B_{(s)}$, $V= \rho$, $K^\ast$, $\omega$, and $\phi$) coupling constants $g_{HHV}$ beyond leading order in $\alpha_s$ from QCD light-cone sum rules (LCSRs) by means of the…
We provide a comprehensive study of strong coupling constants of decuplet baryons with light nonet vector mesons in the framework of light cone QCD sum rules. Using the symmetry arguments, we argue that all coupling constants entering the…
Within the framework of perturbative QCD approach based on $k_T$ factorization, we studied 40 $B_c \to DS$ decay modes in the leading order and leading power, where "S" stands for the light scalar meson. Under two different scenarios (S1…
In this article, we study the contribution from the final-state interactions to the strong coupling constant $g_{D^* D \pi}$. We take an assumption that the momentum transfers in the strong decay $D^{*+} \to D^0 \pi^+$ be large to validate…
We carry out a detailed study of exclusive radiative rare $B$-decays in the framework of the QCD sum rules on the light cone, which combines the traditional QCD sum rule technique with the description of final state vector mesons in terms…