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Charm quark contribution to K+→π+νbar nu at next-to-next-to-leading order

Andrzej J. Buras1, Martin Gorbahn2,3, Ulrich Haisch4,5 and Ulrich Nierste3,4

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We calculate the complete next-to-next-to-leading (NNLO) order QCD corrections to the charm contribution of the rare decay K+→π+νbar nu. We present the results for the two-loop matching conditions of the Wilson coefficients, the three-loop anomalous dimensions, and the two-loop matrix elements of the relevant operators entering the NNLO renormalization group analysis of the Z-penguin and the electroweak box contribution. The NNLO QCD corrections reduce the theoretical uncertainty from ±9.8% at NLO to ±2.4% in the relevant parameter Pc(X), implying the leftover scale uncertainties in Script B(K+→π+νbar nu) and in the determination of |Vtd|, sin 2β, and γ from the K→πνbar nu system to be ±1.3%, ±1.0%, ±0.006, and ±1.2°, respectively. For the bar Mbar S charm quark mass mc(mc) = (1.30±0.05)GeV and |Vus| = 0.2248 the NLO value Pc(X) = 0.37±0.06 is modified to Pc(X) = 0.38±0.04 at NNLO and the error is fully dominated by the uncertainty in mc(mc). We tabulate Pc(X) in terms of mc(mc) and αs(MZ) and express the dependences of Pc(X) on these and other parameters by an accurate approximate analytic formula. We find Script B(K+→π+νbar nu) = (8.0±1.1) × 10−11 and the quoted uncertainty mainly stems from mc(mc) and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa elements. We also emphasize that improved calculations of the long-distance contributions to K+→π+νbar nu and of the isospin breaking in the weak current matrix element will further sharpen the sensitivity of the two golden K→πνbar nu decays to new physics.

Keywords

Rare Decays

Kaon Physics

Renormalization Group

NLO Computations

 

E-print Number: hep-ph/0603079

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PACS

13.20.Eb Decays of K mesons

14.40.Aq pi, K, and eta mesons

11.30.Er Charge conjugation, parity, time reversal, and other discrete symmetries

12.38.-t Quantum chromodynamics

12.15.Hh Determination of Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements

14.65.Dw Charmed quarks

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 11 (November 2006)

Received 22 March 2006, accepted for publication 8 September 2006

Published 2 November 2006



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