Exclusive Semileptonic and Rare B-Meson Decays in QCD

Abstract

We present the first complete results for the semileptonic and rare radiative form factors of B-mesons weak decay into a light vector-meson (rho, omega, K*, phi) in the light-cone sum-rule approach. The calculation includes radiative corrections, higher-twist corrections and SU(3)-breaking effects. The theoretical uncertainty is investigated in detail. A simple parametrization of the form factors is given in terms of three parameters each. We find that the form factors observe several relations inspired by heavy-quark symmetry.

Comments: 35 pages, 9 figures; English phrasing polished, lattice-data in Figs. 6 and 7 corrected; accepted for publication in PRD