Semileptonic B decays to excited charmed mesons

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1997-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9705467v2

Phys.Rev.D57:308-330,1998

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

39 pages revtex including 10 figures, uses epsf. Substantial improvements throughout the paper

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.57.308

Exclusive semileptonic B decays into excited charmed mesons are investigated at order $\Lambda_{QCD}/m_Q$ in the heavy quark effective theory. Differential decay rates for each helicity state of the four lightest excited $D$ mesons ($D_1$, $D_2^*$, $D_0^*$, and $D_1^*$) are examined. At zero recoil, $\Lambda_{QCD}/m_Q$ corrections to the matrix elements of the weak currents can be written in terms of the leading Isgur-Wise functions for the corresponding transition and meson mass splittings. A model independent prediction is found for the slope parameter of the decay rate into helicity zero $D_1$ at zero recoil. The differential decay rates are predicted, including $\Lambda_{QCD}/m_Q$ corrections with some model dependence away from zero recoil and including order $\alpha_s$ corrections. Ratios of various exclusive branching ratios are computed. Matrix elements of the weak currents between $B$ mesons and other excited charmed mesons are discussed at zero recoil to order $\Lambda_{QCD}/m_Q$. These amplitudes vanish at leading order, and can be written at order $\Lambda_{QCD}/m_Q$ in terms of local matrix elements. Applications to $B$ decay sum rules and factorization are presented.

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