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The method of QCD light-cone sum rules is used to calculate soft nonfactorizable contributions to the decay amplitude for B -> J/psi K. The result confirms expectations that in color-suppressed decays nonfactorizable corrections can be…
Uncertainties in the theoretical prediction for the inclusive $B\to X_s\gamma$ decay rate are discussed. We emphasize that there is no operator product expansion for this process. Nonetheless, some nonperturbative effects involving a…
Uncertainties in the theoretical prediction for the inclusive $\bar B\to X_s\gamma$ decay rate are examined. Certain nonperturbative effects involving a virtual $c\bar c$ loop, which are calculable using the operator product expansion, are…
We are going to review recent advances in the theory of exclusive nonleptonic B decays. The emphasis is going to be on the factorization hypothesis and the role of nonfactorizable contributions for nonleptonic B decays. In particular, we…
We use operator product expansion and QCD light-cone sum rules to estimate the amplitude of the decay $B \to J/\psi K $ taking into account leading nonfactorizable contributions. The result is very similar to the estimate obtained earlier…
We apply the method of QCD light-cone sum rules to calculate nonfactorizable contributions to the B -> J/psi K decay and estimate soft nonfactorizable corrections to the a_2 parameter. The corrections appear to be positive, favoring the…
A new method is suggested to calculate the $B\to \pi\pi$ hadronic matrix elements from QCD light-cone sum rules. To leading order in $\alpha_s$ and $1/m_b$, the sum rule reproduces a factorizable matrix element, in accordance with the…
We have systematically investigated the semi-inclusive B decays B->MX, which are manifestations of the quark decay b->Mq, within the framework of QCD-improved factorization. These decays are theoretically clean and have distinctive…
Many known models, which generally use a factorization hypothesis, give a poor account of the decays B into J/psi + K(*). Usually there is a free overall factor, which is fit to the data, so that tests of the models rely upon ratios. The…
This paper is the extension of our previous work [arXiv:2108.03296] entitled Searching a systematics for nonfactorizable contributions to B hadronic decays. In order to realize the full impact of isospin analysis, and to relate decays of…
Quark-hadron duality in the inclusive semileptonic decay $B\to X_c l\nu$ in the Shifman-Voloshin limit $\Lambda \ll \delta m=m_b - m_c \ll m_b, m_c$ is studied within a nonrelativistic potential model. The integrated semileptonic decay rate…
Nonleptonic $B$ to charmonium decays generally deviate from the factorization predictions. We study rescattering effects mediated by intermediate charmed mesons in this class of decay modes and, in particular, we consider $B^- \to K^- h_c$…
The new measurements of $B\to J/\psi K(K^*)$ decays by CDF and CLEO indicate that the production ratio $R$ and the fraction of longitudinal polarization $\Gamma_L/\Gamma$ are smaller than the previous results. In conjunction with the new…
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…
We show that the QCD factorization approach for $B$-meson decays to charmless hadronic two-body final states can be extended to include electromagnetic corrections. The presence of electrically charged final-state particles complicates the…
In the framework of HQET inclusive decays of b-flavored hadrons can be handled as decays of the free b-quark approximately. We analyse the correction to this approximation for the inclusive decays into a polarized $J/\psi$,the correction is…
We calculate the electron spectrum of semileptonic decays of B-mesons into non-charmed hadrons. The shape of the spectrum obtained from QCD sum rules is in general agreement with quark model calculations. At high electron energies the…
We discuss nonperturbative contributions to the inclusive rare $B$ decays $B\to X_s\gamma$ and $B\to X_s\ell^+\ell^-$. We employ an operator product expansion and the heavy quark effective theory to compute the leading corrections to the…
Status of nonfactorizable effects in hadronic charmless B decays is reviewed. Implications of new CLEO measurements on $B^0\to\pi^+\pi^-$ and $B\to\eta' K$ are discussed. Nonfactorizable effects due to color ocet 4-quark operators are…
In the framework of the factorization and the heavy quark effective theory, $B\to D_2^*\pi$ modes are analyzed. We adopt the result from the QCD sum rule calculation for the hadronic matrix elements at leading order of $\Lambda_{\rm…