Heavy-to-light currents at NNLO in SCET and semi-inclusive (B)over-bar -> X(s)l(+)l(-) decay

We perform the two-loop matching calculation for heavy-to-light currents from QCD onto soft-collinear effective theory for the complete set of Dirac structures. The newly obtained matching coefficients enter several phenomenological applications, of which we discuss heavy-to-light form factor ratios...

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Main Authors: Bell, G, Beneke, M, Huber, T, Li, X
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Summary:We perform the two-loop matching calculation for heavy-to-light currents from QCD onto soft-collinear effective theory for the complete set of Dirac structures. The newly obtained matching coefficients enter several phenomenological applications, of which we discuss heavy-to-light form factor ratios and exclusive radiative decays, as well as the semi-inclusive decay B̄→Xsℓ+ℓ-. For this decay, we observe a significant shift of the forward-backward asymmetry zero and find q02=(3.34-0.25+0.22)GeV2 for an invariant mass cut mXcut=2.0GeV. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.