Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-02-17
Nucl.Phys. B619 (2001) 538-564
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
27 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00500-4
Using the renormalon calculus, we study the asymptotic behavior of the perturbative expansion of the hard-scattering kernels entering the QCD factorization formula for the nonleptonic weak decays B->D M, where M is a light meson. In the ``large-beta_0 limit'', the kernels are infrared finite and free of endpoint singularities to all orders of perturbation theory. The leading infrared renormalon singularity corresponding to a power correction of order Lambda/m_b vanishes if the light meson has a symmetric light-cone distribution amplitude. We calculate the Borel transforms and the corresponding momentum distribution functions of the hard-scattering kernels, and resum the series of O(beta_0^{n-1} alpha_s^n) corrections to explore the numerical significance of higher-order perturbative and power corrections. We also derive explicit expressions for the O(beta_0 alpha_s^2) contributions to the kernels, and for the renormalon singularities corresponding to power corrections of order (Lambda/m_b)^2. Finally, we study the limit m_c->0 relevant to charmless hadronic decays such as B->pi pi.
Becher Thomas
Neubert Matthias
Pecjak Ben D.
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