Published July 26, 1993 | Version v1
Journal article

QCD predictions for lepton spectra in inclusive heavy flavor decays

  • 1. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk 630 090 (Russian Federation)
  • 2. St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, St. Petersburg 188 350 (Russian Federation)
  • 3. Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (United States)
  • 4. Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 (United States)

Description

We derive the lepton spectrum in semileptonic b decays from a nonperturbative treatment of QCD; it is based on an expansion in 1/mQ with mQ being the heavy flavor quark mass. The leading corrections arising on the 1/mQ level are completely expressed in terms of the difference in the mass of the heavy hadron and the quark. Nontrivial effects appear in 1/mQ2 terms affecting mainly the end-point region; they are different for meson and baryon decays as well as for bottom and charm decays

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
71
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 496-499.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO