Constraints on B--->pi,K transition form factors from exclusive semileptonic D-meson decays

TL;DR

This paper uses heavy-quark flavor symmetry and recent D-meson decay data to estimate B to pi and K transition form factors, finding results that align with SCET and QCD factorization predictions but are smaller than light-cone sum rule estimates.

Contribution

It provides a phenomenological analysis of B to pi and K form factors based on D-meson decay data and symmetry relations, offering updated estimates consistent with certain theoretical frameworks.

Findings

Form factors at q^2=0 are smaller than light-cone sum rule predictions.

Results agree with SCET and QCD factorization estimates.

Extrapolation methods used are consistent across parameterizations.

Abstract

According to the heavy-quark flavour symmetry, the $B\to \pi, K$ transition form factors could be related to the corresponding ones of D-meson decays near the zero recoil point. With the recent precisely measured exclusive semileptonic decays $D \to \pi \ell \nu$ and $D\to K \ell \nu$, we perform a phenomenological study of $B \to \pi, K$ transition form factors based on this symmetry. Using BK, BZ and Series Expansion parameterizations of the form factor slope, we extrapolate $B \to \pi, K$ transition form factors from $q^{2}_{max}$ to $q^{2}=0$. It is found that, although being consistent with each other within error bars, the central values of our results for $B \to \pi, K$ form factors at $q^2=0$, $f_+^{B\to \pi, K}(0)$, are much smaller than predictions of the QCD light-cone sum rules, but are in good agreements with the ones extracted from hadronic B-meson decays within the SCET framework. Moreover, smaller form factors are also favored by the QCD factorization approach for hadronic B-meson decays.