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Heavy-to-light form factors to three loops

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-09-24 v2

Abstract

We compute three-loop corrections of O(αs3)\mathcal{O}(\alpha_{s}^3) to form factors with one massive and one massless quark coupling to an external vector, axialvector, scalar, pseudoscalar, or tensor current. We obtain analytic results for the color-planar contributions, for the contributions of light-quark loops, and the contributions with two heavy-quark loops. For the computation of the remaining master integrals we use the "expand and match" approach which leads to semi-analytic results for the form factors. We implement our results in a {\tt Mathematica} and a {\tt Fortran} code which allows for fast and precise numerical evaluations in the physically relevant phase space. The form factors are used to compute the hard matching coefficients in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory for all currents. The tensor coefficients at light-like momentum transfer are used to extract the hard function in BˉXsγ\bar B \to X_s \gamma to three loops.

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@article{arxiv.2406.08182,
  title  = {Heavy-to-light form factors to three loops},
  author = {Matteo Fael and Tobias Huber and Fabian Lange and Jakob Müller and Kay Schönwald and Matthias Steinhauser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.08182},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

51 pages, v2: minor modifications

R2 v1 2026-06-28T17:03:04.357Z