QED effects in inclusive semi-leptonic B decays

2023/09/06 by Dante Bigi, Marzia Bordone, Bigi, Dante +7 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Computer Science · #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Computational Physics and Python Applications

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2309.02849

Abstract

We analyse in detail the QED corrections to the total decay width and the moments of the electron energy spectrum of the inclusive semi-leptonic B → X_c e ν decay. Our calculation includes short-distance electroweak corrections, the complete \cal O(α) partonic terms and leading-logarithmic QED effects up to \cal O(Λ³_{\rm QCD}/m_b³). A comprehensive numerical comparison of our results against those obtained with the Monte Carlo (MC) tool PHOTOS is presented. While the comparison indicates good overall agreement, our computation contains QED effects not included in PHOTOS and should therefore better describe photon radiation to B → X_c e ν as measured by the B-factories. Our calculations represent the first steps in the construction of a fully differential higher-order QED MC generator for inclusive semi-leptonic B decays.

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