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We study the exclusive decays of $B$ meson into pseudoscalar charmonium states $\eta_c$ and $\eta_c^\prime$ within the QCD factorization approach and find that the nonfactorizable corrections to naive factorization are infrared safe at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-11 Zhongzhi Song , Ce Meng , Kuang-Ta Chao

In the framework of QCD factorization, we study the $B$ meson exclusive decays $B\to \chi_{cJ}K$ where the spin-triplet P-wave charmonium states $\chi_{cJ}(J=0,1,2)$ are described by the color-singlet non-relativistic wave functions. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Zhong-Zhi Song , Ce Meng , Ying-Jia Gao , Kuang-Ta Chao

There are different approaches for the hadronic B decay calculations, recently. In this paper, we upgrade three of them, namely factorization, QCD factorization and the perturbative QCD approach based on $k_T$ factorization, by using new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Bi-Hai Hong , Cai-Dian Lu

We extend the framework of QCD factorization to non-leptonic $B$ decays into three light mesons, taking as an example the decay $B^+ \to \pi^+ \pi^+ \pi^-$. We discuss the factorization properties of this decay in different regions of phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-09 Susanne Kränkl , Thomas Mannel , Javier Virto

The two-body hadronic decays of B mesons into pseudoscalar and axial vector mesons are studied within the framework of QCD factorization. The light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) for $^3P_1$ and $^1P_1$ axial-vector mesons have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hai-Yang Cheng , Kwei-Chou Yang

Using experimental information on branching ratios as well as direct and mixing-induced CP asymmetries, we perform a data-driven analysis of charmless non-leptonic $B \to PP$ decays, where $P$ is any of the light pseudoscalar mesons.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-07 Wen-Sheng Fang , Tobias Huber , Xin-Qiang Li , Eleftheria Malami , Gilberto Tetlalmatzi-Xolocotzi

We propose a QCD-based model for calculation of the non-perturbative corrections to the factorization approximation in the decays of heavy mesons. In the framework of the model, factorization in pseudoscalar transitions holds exactly at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 John F. Donoghue , Alexey A. Petrov

We consider the exclusive decay $B\to J/\psi K$ using the QCD-improved factorization method in the heavy quark limit. It is shown that the decay amplitude is factorizable in this limit and nonfactorizable contributions are calculable from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Junegone Chay , Chul Kim

We discuss a model-independent framework for the analysis of the radiative B-meson decays B -> K* gamma and B -> rho gamma based on the heavy-quark limit of QCD. We present a factorization formula for the treatment of B -> V gamma matrix…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-09 Gerhard Buchalla

We study O(alpha^2 beta_0) perturbative corrections to matrix elements entering two-body exclusive decays of the form B -> pi pi, pi K in the QCD factorization formalism, including chirally enhanced power corrections, and discuss the effect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Craig N. Burrell , Alexander R. Williamson

The light-cone distribution amplitude (LCDA) of a heavy-light meson defined in heavy quark effective theory (HQET), is a fundamental nonperturbative input to account for innumerable $B$ meson exclusive decay and production processes. On the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-30 Saadi Ishaq , Yu Jia , Xiaonu Xiong , De-Shan Yang

We analyse in detail the QED corrections to the total decay width and the moments of the electron energy spectrum of the inclusive semi-leptonic $B \to X_c e \nu$ decay. Our calculation includes short-distance electroweak corrections, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Dante Bigi , Marzia Bordone , Paolo Gambino , Ulrich Haisch , Andrea Piccione

The radiative leptonic $B\to \gamma\ell\nu_{\ell}$ decay serves as an ideal platform to determine the $B$-meson inverse moment which is a fundamental nonperturbative parameter for the $B$ meson. In this paper, we explore precise QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-25 Bo-Yan Cui , Yue-Long Shen , Chao Wang , Yan-Bing Wei

Decays $J/\psi\to B\bar B$ into octet baryon-antibaryons pairs are studied within the QCD factorisation framework. The next-to-leading power correction to the leading-order decay amplitude is calculated for the first time. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-10 Nikolay Kivel

We discuss the very rare, exclusive hadronic decays of a Z boson into a meson and a photon. The QCD factorization approach allows to organize the decay amplitude as an expansion in powers of $\Lambda_{\rm QCD}/m_Z\,$, where the leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-22 Stefan Alte , Yuval Grossman , Matthias König , Matthias Neubert

In this work, we study the factorization of the radiative leptonic decays of $B^-$ and $D^-$ mesons, the contributions of the order $O(\Lambda _{\rm QCD}\left/m_Q\right.)$ are taken into account. The factorization is proved to be valid…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Ji-Chong Yang , Mao-Zhi Yang

We compute the supersymmetric QCD corrections to the decay distribution of polarized top quarks for the semileptonic decay mode $t(\uparrow)\to b l^+\nu_l$. As a byproduct, we reinvestigate the SUSY-QCD corrections to the total decay width…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Brandenburg , M. Maniatis

Motivated by the first LHCb searches for the rare $\bar{B}_{s,d}^{0} \to J/\psi\mu^{+}\mu^{-}$ decays, we perform a detailed study of these processes within the QCD factorization formalism. Since the transverse size of the $J/\psi$ meson is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-11 Xin-Qiang Li , Yan Shi , Ya-Dong Yang , Xing-Bo Yuan , Chun-Yang Zhao

In collinear factorization, light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) are key ingredients to calculate the production rate of a hadron in high energy exclusive processes. For a doubly-heavy meson system (such as $B_c, J/\psi, \Upsilon$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-05 Wei Wang , Ji Xu , Deshan Yang , Shuai Zhao

We analyze the double radiative B-meson decays B_s -> gamma gamma and B_d -> gamma gamma in QCD factorization based on the heavy-quark limit m_b >> Lambda_QCD. We systematically discuss the various contributions to these exclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefan W. Bosch , Gerhard Buchalla