Factorization of multiparticle contributions to amplitudes of B-meson weak decays

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that multiparticle contributions to B-meson weak decay amplitudes can be factorized into a convolution of a hard kernel and a multiparticle wave function in the heavy quark limit, with suppressed corrections.

Contribution

It provides a new factorization formula for multiparticle contributions in B-meson decays at leading order in $\

Findings

Multiparticle contributions are expressed as a convolution of a hard kernel and a multiparticle wave function.

Factorization holds in the heavy quark limit and at leading order in $\

Corrections are suppressed by powers of $\

Abstract

We show that multiparticle contributions to amplitudes of weak decays of the generic topology (heavy quark hits some intermediate point of the propagator line joining the end-points from which momenta $q$ and $q'$ are emitted) is given in the heavy quark limit and at the leading order in $\alpha_s$ by the convolution of (i) hard kernel composed of highly virtual propagators of light degrees of freedom and (ii) the $B$-meson multiparticle wave function, $\langle 0|\phi(x)\phi(x_1)\dots\phi(x_n)\phi_b(0)\phi(x'_{n'})\dots\phi(x'_1)\phi(x')|B(p)\rangle$, in a {\it double-collinear} light-cone configuration: the coordinates $x,x_1,...,x_n$ are ordered and aligned along the light-like 4-vector $a_\mu$, $a^2=0$, $q_\mu\propto a_\mu$, while the coordinates $x',x_1',...,x'_{n'}$ are ordered and aligned along the light-like 4-vector $a'_\mu$, $a'^2=0$, $q'_\mu\propto a'_\mu$, $a'a\ne 0$. Corrections to this factorization formula are suppressed by powers of $\Lambda_{\rm QCD}/M_B$.