Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-01-04
Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 014010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
18 pages, 5 figures, minor changes
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.014010
In this paper we investigate the hadronic mass spectra of inclusive B decays. Specifically, we study how an upper cut on the invariant mass spectrum, which is necessary to extract V_{ub}, results in the breakdown of the standard perturbative expansion due to the existence of large infrared logs. We first show how the decay rate factorizes at the level of the double differential distribution. Then, we present closed form expressions for the resummed cut rate for the inclusive decays B -> X_s gamma and B -> X_u e nu at next-to-leading order in the infrared logs. Using these results, we determine the range of cuts for which resummation is necessary, as well as the range for which the resummed expansion itself breaks down. We also use our results to extract the leading and next to leading infrared log contribution to the two loop differential rate. We find that for the phenomenologically interesting cut values, there is only a small region where the calculation is under control. Furthermore, the size of this region is sensitive to the parameter \bar{\Lambda}. We discuss the viability of extracting V_{ub} from the hadronic mass spectrum.
Leibovich Adam K.
Low Ian
Rothstein Ira Z.
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