Related papers: Radiative Corrections in K, D, and B decays
At present and future hadron colliders, the precision physics program started in the past will be continued. In particular, a precise determination of the W boson mass will be carried out. This requires the calculation of the radiative…
Status of nonfactorizable effects in exclusive hadronic weak decays of $D$ and $B$ mesons is reviewed.
In a previous paper arXiv:0708.3256 [hep-ph] we have calculated the radiative corrections to $\rho \to \pi\pi$ decays, aiming to estimate the width difference between charged and neutral rho mesons. There, we have used the scalar QED…
The status of precision calculations for the processes e+e- --> WW --> 4 fermions is reviewed, paying particular attention to questions of gauge invariance and recent progress concerning photonic radiative corrections.
We describe several problems related to the studies of the effects of radiative QCD corrections in the phenomenological and theoretical considerations thus summarizing the work of the QCD part of the Symposium on "Radiative Corrections:…
In this work we study the radiative leptonic decays of $B^-$, $D^-$ and $D_s^-\to \gamma l \bar{\nu}$, including both the short-distance and long-distance contributions. The short-distance contribution is calculated by using the…
We discussed the impact of the existence of B -> D' l nu decays to radially excited D' mesons on various long-standing puzzles in the experimental data of semileptonic b -> c ell nu decays, as summarized in our recent article…
Radiative corrections are calculated for antineutrino proton quasielastic scattering, neutrino deuteron scattering, and the asymmetry of polarised neutron beta decay from which $G_{A}/G_{V}$ is determined. A particular emphasis is given to…
We discuss the $\mbox{M1}$ radiative transitions $D^*\rightarrow D\gamma$, $D_{s}^*\rightarrow D_s\gamma$, $B^*\rightarrow B\gamma$, and $B^*_{s}\rightarrow B_s\gamma$. A relativistic potential model is proposed. The corresponding…
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…
I present highlights of recent CLEO results on the hadronic decay modes of the B meson. Topics covered include two body rare B decays modes, a new measurement of $(B^0 \to D^0 K^+) / (B^0 \to D^0 \pi^+)$, an in depth study of the decay $B^0…
We present an overview of rare K, D and B decays. Particular attention is devoted to those flavour-changing neutral-current processes of K and B mesons that offer the possibility of new significant tests of the Standard Model. The…
We review some recent theoretical progress in the understanding of weak radiative B meson decay, and discuss the implications of present and improved measurements of b -> s gamma for supersymmetric models.
Recent developments in the field of high precision calculations in the Standard Model are illustrated with particular emphasis on the evidence for radiative corrections and on the estimate of the theoretical error in perturbative…
The first order QED corrections to the polarized muon decay spectrum are considered. The exact dependence on electron and muon masses is kept. Numerical results are presented.
The modified perturbative approach in which transverse degrees of freedom as well as Sudakov suppressions are taken into account, is applied to $B$ decays into two $\pi$ mesons. The influence of various model parameters (CKM matrix…
Rare decays of B mesons, such as B \to K^*\gamma and B\to K^{(*)}\ell^+\ell^- are loop suppressed in the Standard Model and sensitive to new physics. The final state meson in heavy-light decays at large recoil has sizeable momentum in the…
We investigate radiative corrections to K --> 3 pi decays. In particular, we extend the non-relativistic framework developed recently to include real and virtual photons and show that, in a well-defined power counting scheme, the results…
The radiative corrections to the pure leptonic decay $D_s{\longrightarrow} {\ell}{{\nu}}_{\ell}$ up-to one-loop order is presented. We find the virtual photon loop corrections to $D_s{\longrightarrow} {\tau}{{\nu}}_{\tau}$ is negative and…
The $O(\alpha)$ electromagnetic radiative corrections to the $B^- \rightarrow V^0 \ell^- \bar{\nu}_{\ell}$ ($V$ is a vector meson and $\ell$ a charged lepton) decay rates are evaluated using the cutoff method to regularize virtual…