On The Dimensional Methods in Rare b Decays

Abstract

Since several years there exists a question whether the dimensional reduction and the usual dimensional regularization give different results for the QCD-improved $b \rightarrow s \gamma$ and $b \rightarrow s$ $gluon$ decay rates. Here it is demonstrated explicitly that this is not the case: As long as physically meaningful quantities are considered, the results obtained with help of both techniques agree.