Factorization of heavy-to-light form factors in soft-colline

Heavy-to-light transition form factors at large recoil energy of the light meson have been conjectured to obey a factorization formula, where the set of form factors is reduced to a smaller number of universal form factors up to hard-scattering corrections

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CERN-TH/2003-286

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November25,2003

arXiv:hep-ph/0311335v1 26 Nov 2003Factorizationofheavy-to-lightformfactorsinsoft-collineare ectivetheoryM.BenekeaandTh.FeldmannbaInstitutf¨urTheoretischePhysikE,RWTHAachenD–52056Aachen,GermanybCERN,TheoryDivision,CH-1211Geneva,SwitzerlandAbstractHeavy-to-lighttransitionformfactorsatlargerecoilenergyofthelightmesonhavebeenconjecturedtoobeyafactorizationformula,wherethesetofformfactorsisreducedtoasmallernumberofuniversalformfactorsuptohard-scattering

corrections.Inthispaperweextendourpreviousinvestigationofheavy-to-lightcurrentsinsoft-collineare ectivetheoryto nalstateswithinvariantmassΛ2asisappropriatetoexclusiveBmesondecays.Thee ectivetheorycontainssoftmodesandtwocollinearmodeswithvirtualitiesofordermbΛ(‘hard-collinear’)andΛ2.Integratingoutthehard-collinearmodesresultsinthehardspectator-scatteringcontributionstoexclusiveBdecays.Wediscusstherepresentationofheavy-to-lightcurrentsinthee ectivetheoryafterintegratingoutthehard-collinearscale,andshowthatthepreviouslyconjecturedfactorizationformulaisvalidtoallordersinperturbationtheory.Thenaivefactorizationofmatrixelementsinthee ectivetheoryintocollinearandsoftmatrixelementsmaybeinvalidatedbydivergencesinconvolutionintegrals.Inthefactorizationproofwecircumventtheexplicitregularizationofendpointdivergencesbyade nitionoftheuniversalformfactorsthatincludeshard-collinear,collinearandsofte ects.