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Semileptonic Decays: The Heavy Daughter Quark Limit

2009/05/30 by Matthew Dowling, Dowling, Matthew
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0906.0108

4 pages, 3 figures, proceedings from a talk given at Lake Louise Winter Institute 2009

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Abstract

We have calculated the rate of the decay b -> clv to second order in alphas in the limit that the b and c quarks have equal masses. The results here confirm recent calculations done in the opposite limit where the c-quark is much lighter than the b-quark.

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