Eur Phys J C (2004) 33: s241-s243
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjcd/s2003-03-121-6

PS01 Heavy Flavour Physics

Spectator interactions and factorization in B→π l ν decay

¹ Institut für Theoretische Physik E, RWTH Aachen, 52056 Aachen, Germany
² CERN Theory Division, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

Received: 19 September 2003
Accepted: 14 October 2003
Published online: 22 October 2003

Abstract

We investigate the factorization of different momentum modes that appear in matrix elements for exclusive B meson decays into light energetic particles for the specific case of B→π form factors at large pion recoil. We first integrate out hard modes with virtualities of order m _b ² (m _b being the heavy quark mass), and then hard-collinear modes with virtualities m _b Λ (Λ being the strong interaction scale). The resulting effective theory contains soft and collinear fields with virtualities Λ ². We prove a previously conjectured factorization formula for B → π form factors in the heavy quark limit to all orders in α _s , paying particular attention to ‘endpoint singularities’ that might have appeared in hard spectator interactions.

PACS: 12.39.St Factorization — 13.20.He Decays of bottom mesons