Abstract
We derive the lepton spectrum in semileptonic b decays from a nonperturbative treatment of QCD; it is based on an expansion in 1/mQ with mQ being the heavy flavor quark mass. The leading corrections arising on the 1/mQ level are completely expressed in terms of the difference in the mass of the heavy hadron and the quark. Nontrivial effects appear in 1/mQ2 terms affecting mainly the end-point region; they are different for meson and baryon decays as well as for bottom and charm decays.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 496-499 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Physical review letters |
Volume | 71 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1993 |