Published August 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Master integrals for double real radiation emission in heavy-to-light quark decay

  • 1. INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome (Italy)
  • 2. Universita Sapienza, Dipartimento di Fisica, Rome (Italy)
  • 3. Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Physik Department T31, Garching (Germany)
  • 4. INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milan (Italy)
  • 5. The City University of New York, The Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY (United States)
  • 6. The City University of New York, Physics Department, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY (United States)

Description

We evaluate analytically the master integrals for double real radiation emission in the b → uW* decay, where b and u are a massive and massless quark, respectively, while W* is an off-shell charged weak boson. Since the W boson can subsequently decay in a lepton anti-neutrino pair, the results of the present paper constitute a further step toward a fully analytic computation of differential distributions for the semileptonic decay of a b quark at NNLO in QCD. The latter partonic process plays a crucial role in the study of inclusive semileptonic charmless decays of B mesons. Our results are expressed in terms of multiple polylogarithms of maximum weight four. (orig.)

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6157-6

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online)
Journal Volume
78
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. 1-12
ISSN
1434-6052