Subleading power corrections to $B\to \gamma l\nu$ decay in PQCD approach

Abstract

The leptonic radiative decay $B\to \gamma l\nu$ is of great importance in the determination of $B$ meson wave functions, and evaluating the form factors $F_{V,A}$ are the essential problem on the study of this channel. We computed next-to-leading power corrections to the form factors within the framework of PQCD approach, including the power suppressed hard kernel, the contribution from a complete set of three-particle $B$ meson wave functions up to twist-4 and two-particle off light-cone wave functions, the $1/m_b$ corrections in heavy quark effective theory, and the contribution from hadronic structure of photon. In spite of large theoretical uncertainties, the overall power suppressed contributions decreases about $50\%$ of the leading power result. The ${\lambda }_B$ dependence of the integrated branching ratio is reduced after including the subleading power contributions, thus the power corrections lead to more ambiguity in the determination of ${\lambda }_B$ from $B\to \gamma l\nu$ decay.

Comments: 7 figures and 1 table