Non-Universal Effects in Semi-Inclusive B Decays
Abstract
We show that most spectra in the semileptonic decay B -> Xu + l + nu, such as for example the distribution in the light-cone momentum p+ = EX - pX recently considered, do not have the same long-distance structure of the photon spectrum in the radiative decay B -> Xs + gamma. On the contrary, the semileptonic distribution in the final hadron energy EX is connected to the radiative spectrum via short-distance factors only. The EX distribution also has a specific infrared structure known as the ``Sudakov shoulder''. We also discuss an explicit check of the resummation formula for the semileptonic decays, based on a recent second-order computation.
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