Volume 476 - 42nd International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2024) - Quark and Lepton Flavour Physics
Pushing the Heavy Quark Expansion for $b\to c\ell\bar{\nu}$ to higher order in $1/m_b$
I. Milutin*, T. Mannel and K.K. Vos
*: corresponding author
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Pre-published on: December 17, 2024
Published on: April 29, 2025
Abstract
The Heavy Quark Expansion (HQE) is the major tool to perform calculations for inclusive semileptonic $B\to X_cl\bar{\nu}$ and, consequently, for precision determinations of the CKM matrix element $V_{cb}$. To further improve precision, we pushed the expansion to $1/m_b^5$ to include even higher order terms in the HQE. Notably, at $1/m_b^5$, ``intrinsic charm'' (IC) contributions proportional to $1/(m_b^3m_c^2)$ occur, which are numerically expected to be sizeable. We will therefore firstly discuss the determination of a reduced set of HQE parameters at $1/m_b^5$, employing Reparametrisation Invariance (RPI) to this end. Consequently, we will show how the IC and ``genuine" $1/m_b^5$ contribute to the different kinematical moments of $B\to X_cl\bar{\nu}$, focusing in this work on the lepton energy $E_l$ moments. Using the ``lowest-lying state saturation ansatz'' (LLSA), we estimate the size of these contributions and observe a partial cancellation between the IC and ``genuine'' $1/m_b^5$ contributions, leading to an overall small contribution.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.476.0471
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