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Threshold resummation for exclusive B meson decays

arXiv:hep-ph/0102013 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.66.094010

Abstract

We argue that double logarithmic corrections need to be resumed in perturbative QCD factorization theorem for exclusive meson decays, when the end-point region with a momentum fraction is important. These double logarithms, being of the collinear origin, are absorbed into a quark jet function, which is defined by a matrix element of a quark field attached by a Wilson line. The factorization of the jet function from the decay is proved to all orders. Threshold resummation for the jet function leads to a universal, {\it i.e.}, process-independent, Sudakov factor, whose qualitative behavior is analyzed and found to smear the end-point singularities in heavy-to-light transition form factors.

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