Threshold resummed spectra in B -> Xu l nu decays in NLO (II)

Aglietti, Ugo; Ricciardi, Giulia; Ferrera, Giancarlo

Threshold resummed spectra in B -> Xu l nu decays in NLO (II)

Authors

Aglietti, Ugo

Ricciardi, Giulia

Ferrera, Giancarlo

Description

We resum to next-to-leading order the distribution in the ratio of the invariant hadron mass mX to the total hadron energy EX and the distribution in mX in the semileptonic decays B -> Xu l nu. By expanding our formulas, we obtain the coefficients of all the infrared logarithms at O(alphaS^2) and of the leading ones at O(alphaS^3). We explicitly show that the relation between these semileptonic spectra and the photon spectrum in the radiative decay B -> Xs gamma is not a purely short-distance one. There are long-distance effects in the semileptonic spectra which are not completely factorized by the structure function as measured in the radiative decay and have to be modelled in some way.
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