Eur. Phys. J. C 21, 319-338 (2001)
DOI: 10.1007/s100520100744
Heavy-light current correlators
at order
in QCD and HQET
K.G. Chetyrkin1, 2, 3 and M. Steinhauser4
1 Fakultät für Physik, Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
2 Institut für Theoretische Teilchenphysik, Universität Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
3 Permanent address: Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, 60th October Anniversary Pros pect 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
4 II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
(Received: 19 June 2001 / Published online: 10 August 2001 -© Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica 2001 )
Abstract
The non-diagonal correlators of vector and scalar currents are
considered at three-loop order in QCD. The full mass dependence is
computed in the case where one of the quarks is massless and the other one
carries mass M.
We exploit the decoupling relations between the full
theory and the heavy quark effective theory
(HQET) in order to obtain the
logarithmic parts of the leading threshold terms.
With the help of conformal mapping and
Padé approximation numerical estimates for the
non-logarithmic terms are extracted which in turn lead to a prediction
of the correlator in HQET at order
.
As applications of the vector and scalar correlator we
consider the single-top-quark production via the process
and the decay rate of a charged Higgs boson into hadrons,
respectively.
In both cases the computed NLO corrections are shown to be numerically
much less important than the leading ones.
On the contrary, the NLO order QCD corrections to the HQET
sum rule for the leptonic decay rate of a heavy-light meson
proves to be comparable to the leading one.
© Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag 2001
