Subleading power corrections to $B\to \gamma l\nu $ decay in PQCD approach

TL;DR

This paper calculates subleading power corrections to the $B o \gamma l u$ decay form factors within PQCD, reducing theoretical uncertainties and highlighting the impact on extracting $\lambda_B$ from experimental data.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive calculation of next-to-leading power corrections including various wave functions and effects, improving the understanding of power corrections in $B$ decay.

Findings

Power suppressed contributions decrease about 50% of leading power results.

Including subleading corrections reduces the $\lambda_B$ dependence of the branching ratio.

Power corrections increase theoretical uncertainties in $\lambda_B$ extraction.

Abstract

The leptonic radiative decay $B \to \gamma l\nu$ is of great importance in the determination of $B$ meson wave functions, and evaluating the form factors $ F_{V,A}$ are the essential problem on the study of this channel. We computed next-to-leading power corrections to the form factors within the framework of PQCD approach, including the power suppressed hard kernel, the contribution from a complete set of three-particle $B$ meson wave functions up to twist-4 and two-particle off light-cone wave functions, the $1/m_b$ corrections in heavy quark effective theory, and the contribution from hadronic structure of photon. In spite of large theoretical uncertainties, the overall power suppressed contributions decreases about $50\%$ of the leading power result. The $\lambda_B$ dependence of the integrated branching ratio is reduced after including the subleading power contributions, thus the power corrections lead to more ambiguity in the determination of $\lambda_B$ from $B \to \gamma l\nu$ decay.