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Inclusive Semileptonic Decays and the Structure of B Mesons

1995/04/24 by Changhao Jin, C. H. Jin, Jin, C. H. +2
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Nuclear physics research studies #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9504375

24 pages, LaTex file, 5 figures added as .EPS files

arxiv created 1995/04/24 · openalex publication_date 1995/04/24 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

A field theoretic description for inclusive semileptonic B meson decays is formulated. We argue that large regions of the phase spaces for the decays are dominated by distances near the light cone. The light-cone dominance allows to incorporate nonperturbative QCD effects in a distribution function. A one-to-one correspondence with the heavy quark effective theory is developed, which can estimate the first two moments of the distribution function. These conditions are useful but not restrictive enough to specify the distribution function, which must still be determined from experiment. Several model-independent predictions, such as scaling, sum rules of the hadronic structure functions and relations among them, are made. General formulas for the differential decay rates on several variables are presented, which are used for calculating the electron energy spectra with an Ansatz for the light-cone distribution function.

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