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Phys. Rev. D 64, 094022 (2001) [15 pages]

Form factors of heavy-to-light B decays at large recoil

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D. Ebert
Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 567, Japan
Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany

R. N. Faustov and V. O. Galkin
Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Council for Cybernetics, Moscow 117333, Russia

Received 6 July 2001; published 9 October 2001

General relations between the form factors of B decays to light mesons are derived using the heavy quark and large recoil expansion. On their basis the complete account of contributions of second order in the ratio of the light meson mass to the large recoil energy is performed. Both ground and excited final meson states are considered. It is shown that most of the known form factor relations remain valid after the inclusion of quadratic mass corrections. The validity of some of such relations requires additional equalities for the helicity amplitudes. It is found that all these relations and equalities are satisfied in the relativistic quark model based on the quasipotential approach in quantum field theory. The contribution of 1/mb corrections to the branching fraction of the rare radiative B decay is discussed.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.64.094022
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.64.094022
PACS:
13.20.He, 12.39.Hg, 12.39.Ki