Sudakov suppression in the soft heavy to light meson transition form factor
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We calculate hard gluon contribution to the decay vertex that determines the heavy-to-light meson transition form factor at large recoil. It is found that resulting Sudakov suppression significantly decreases the soft, wave function dependent contribution to the form factor. Phenomenological implications of these findings are discussed. Typeset using REVTEX
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ar X iv : h ep - p h / 98 10 43 8 v 1 2 1 O ct 1 99 8 Sudakov suppression in the soft heavy to light meson transition form factor
We calculate hard gluon contribution to the decay vertex that determines the heavy-to-light meson transition form factor at large recoil. It is found that resulting Sudakov suppression significantly decreases the soft, wave function dependent contribution to the form factor. Phenomenological implications of these findings are discussed. Typeset using REVTEX 1
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