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Perturbative QCD analysis of {ital B} meson decays

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D
 [1];  [2]
  1. Department of Physics, National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, Republic of (China)
  2. Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of (China)
The resummation of large QCD radiative corrections, including leading and next-to-leading logarithms, in the pion electromagnetic form factor is reviewed. A similar formalism is applied to exclusive processes involving heavy mesons, and leads to Sudakov suppression for the semileptonic decay {ital B}{r_arrow}{pi}{ital l}{nu}. It is found that, with the inclusion of Sudakov effects, a perturbative QCD analysis of this decay is reliable for the energy fraction of the pion above 0.4. Combining predictions from soft pion theorems we estimate that the upper limit of the matrix element {parallel}{ital V}{sub {ital ub}}{parallel} is 2.8{endash}4.8{times}10{sup {minus}3} from different models of the {ital B} meson wave function. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}
OSTI ID:
279168
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 53; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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