Summing Sudakov logarithms inBXsγin effective field theory

Abstract
We construct an effective field theory valid for processes in which highly energetic light-like particles interact with collinear and soft degrees of freedom, using the decay BXsγ near the end point of the photon spectrum, x=2Eγ/mb1, as an example. Below the scale μ=mb both soft and collinear degrees of freedom are included in the effective theory, while below the scale μ=mbxy, where 1y is the light cone momentum fraction of the b quark in the B meson, we match onto a theory of bilocal operators. We show that at one loop large logarithms cancel in the matching conditions, and that we recover the well-known renormalization group equations that sum leading Sudakov logarithms.
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