NLL QCD contribution of the electromagnetic dipole operator to B -> Xs gamma gamma with a massive strange quark

Asatrian, H. M; Greub, Christoph (2014). NLL QCD contribution of the electromagnetic dipole operator to B -> Xs gamma gamma with a massive strange quark. Physical review. D - particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 89(9) Melville, N.Y.: American Physical Society 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.094028

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We calculate the O(αs) corrections to the double differential decay width dΓ77/(ds1ds2) for the process B¯→Xsγγ, originating from diagrams involving the electromagnetic dipole operator O7. The kinematical variables s1 and s2 are defined as si=(pb−qi)2/m2b, where pb, q1, q2 are the momenta of the b quark and two photons. We introduce a nonzero mass ms for the strange quark to regulate configurations where the gluon or one of the photons become collinear with the strange quark and retain terms which are logarithmic in ms, while discarding terms which go to zero in the limit ms→0. When combining virtual and bremsstrahlung corrections, the infrared and collinear singularities induced by soft and/or collinear gluons drop out. By our cuts the photons do not become soft, but one of them can become collinear with the strange quark. This implies that in the final result a single logarithm of ms survives. In principle, the configurations with collinear photon emission could be treated using fragmentation functions. In a related work we find that similar results can be obtained when simply interpreting ms appearing in the final result as a constituent mass. We do so in the present paper and vary ms between 400 and 600 MeV in the numerics. This work extends a previous paper by us, where only the leading power terms with respect to the (normalized) hadronic mass s3=(pb−q1−q2)2/m2b were taken into account in the underlying triple differential decay width dΓ77/(ds1ds2ds3).

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC)
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Theoretical Physics

UniBE Contributor:

Greub, Christoph

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

1550-7998

Publisher:

American Physical Society

Language:

English

Submitter:

Esther Fiechter

Date Deposited:

24 Nov 2014 14:29

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:38

Publisher DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.89.094028

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.60190

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/60190

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