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Complete analysis on QED corrections to $B_{q}\, \to\, \tau^+\, \tau^-$

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Motivated by a dynamical enhancement of the electromagnetic corrections by a power of $\Lambda_{\mathrm{QCD}}/m_b$ in $B_{d,s}\, \to\, \mu^+\, \mu^-$ at next-to-leading order (NLO), we extend the QED factorization effects on the leptonic $B$ meson decays with light muon leptons to tauonic final states, $B_{d,s} \, \to\, \tau^+\, \tau^-$, using soft-collinear effective theory (SCET). This extension is necessary owing to the appearance of the large $\tau$ mass, which will lead to different power counting in SCET and also different results. We provide a complete NLO electromagnetic corrections to $B_{d,s} \, \to\, \tau^+\, \tau^-$, which include hard functions and hard-collinear functions below the bottom quark mass scale $\mu_b$. The power enhanced electromagnetic effects from hard-collinear contributions on $B_{d,s}\, \to\, \mu^+\, \mu^-$ discussed before also exist in $B_{d,s} \, \to\, \tau^+\, \tau^-$. However the logarithm term arising from contributions of hard-collinear photon and lepton virtualities for $B_{d,s}\, \to\, \tau^+\, \tau^-$ is not large as it is in muon case due to the hard-collinear scale of $\tau$ mass, which lead to only approximately $0.04\%$ QED corrections to the branching fraction of $B_{d,s} \, \to\, \tau^+\, \tau^-$ compared with overall reduction about $0.5\%$ in $B_{d,s}\, \to\, \mu^+\, \mu^-$.

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Soft Collinear Effective Theory for Heavy QCD Axions

hep-ph · 2026-08-12 · conditional · novelty 6.0

A new dimension-seven operator is generated by the gluon equation of motion in the presence of the axion-gluon coupling, and its spectator-scattering contribution to B to K a is roughly 25 percent of the soft-overlap contribution.

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  • Soft Collinear Effective Theory for Heavy QCD Axions hep-ph · 2026-08-12 · conditional · none · ref 26 · internal anchor

    A new dimension-seven operator is generated by the gluon equation of motion in the presence of the axion-gluon coupling, and its spectator-scattering contribution to B to K a is roughly 25 percent of the soft-overlap contribution.