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The method of QCD sum rules has proven to be particularly useful in heavy quark physics, where a small distance scale is provided by the inverse heavy quark mass. We present two new examples for the application of this method to B-physics:…
We calculate the $B\to\pi,\rho$ transition form factors in the framework of perturbative QCD to leading power of $1/M_B$, $M_B$ being the $B$ meson mass. We explain the basic principle by discussing the pion electromagnetic form factor. It…
Applying the method of light-cone sum rules with photon distribution amplitudes, we compute the subleading-power correction to the radiative leptonic $B \to \gamma \ell \nu$ decay, at next-to-leading order in QCD for the twist-two…
We consider the pion-photon transition form factor at low to intermediate spacelike momenta within the theoretical framework of light-cone sum rules. We derive predictions which take into account all currently known contributions stemming…
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…
We make a detailed study on the $D_s$ meson leading-twist LCDA $\phi_{2;D_s}$ by using the QCD sum rules within the framework of the background field theory. To improve the precision, its moments $\langle \xi^n\rangle _{2;D_s}$ are…
An analysis of all available data (CELLO, CLEO, \babar) in the range $[1\div 40]$ GeV$^2$ for the pion-photon transition form factor in terms of light-cone sum rules with next-to-leading-order accuracy is discussed, including twist-four…
Under two different scenarios for the light scalar mesons, we investigate the transition form factors of $B(B_s)$ mesons decay into a scalar meson in the perturbative QCD approach. In the large recoiling region, the form factors are…
We reanalyze the $\Lambda_b\to p$ transition form factors in the perturbative QCD (PQCD) approach by including higher-twist light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) of a $\Lambda_b$ baryon and a proton. The previous PQCD evaluation…
We present a detailed calculation on the $B\to K^*$ transition form factors (TFFs), $A_{0,1,2}$, $V$ and $T_{1,2,3}$, within the QCD light-cone sum rules (LCSR). To suppress the contributions from high-twist light-cone distribution…
We revisit light-cone sum rules with pion distribution amplitudes to determine the full set of local $B \to \pi$ form factors. To this end, we determine all duality threshold parameters from a Bayesian fit for the first time. Our results,…
Applying the light-cone sum rules (LCSR) approach, the next-to-leading-order (NLO) corrections to $B \to A$ form factors are calculated with the twist-two and twist-three $B$ meson light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) at leading power…
Employing the standard hard-scattering approach and the running coupling method we calculate a class of power-suppressed corrections $\sim 1/Q^{2n},n=1,2,3,...$ to the electromagnetic $\pi^0\gamma$ transition form factor (FF)…
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…
We discuss applications of QCD sum rules on the light-cone to the form factors of the exclusive transitions $B \rightarrow \pi$ and $D\rightarrow \pi$, and to the $B^*B \pi$ and $D^*D \pi$ coupling constants. In the light of our results we…
This work addresses the calculation of local form factors involved in the theoretical predictions of semileptonic $B$-meson decays at low $q^2$. We present a new approach to the method of QCD light-cone sum rule with $B$-meson light-cone…
This talk presents results of our study of heavy-to-light transition form factors extracted with the help of light-cone sum rules. We employ a model with scalar particles interacting via massless-boson exchange and study the heavy-to-light…
We calculate the branching ratio and $CP$ violations for $B\to K\pi$ decays in a modified perturbative QCD approach based on $k_{T}$ factorization. The resummation effect of the transverse momentum regulates the endpoint singularity. Using…
The improved QCD light-cone sum rule (LCSR) provides an effective way to deal with the heavy-to-light transition form factors (TFFs). Firstly, we adopt the improved LCSR approach to deal with the $B\to D$ TFF $f^{+}(q^2)$ up to twist-4…
We investigate the transition to perturbative QCD in Compton processes, by concentrating on the specific reactions $\pi \gamma \to \pi \gamma$ and pion photoproduction at moderate energy scales. New sum rules for each of the helicities…