Light-cone distribution amplitudes of energetic heavy mesons
Gael Finauri (TU München)

Light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) frequently arise in factorization theorems involving light and heavy mesons.
The QCD LCDA for heavy mesons includes short-distance physics at energy scales of the heavy quark mass.
In this talk I will explain how to achieve the separation of this perturbative scale from the purely hadronic effects by expressing the QCD LCDA as a convolution of a perturbative « jet » function with the universal, quark-mass independent HQET LCDA.
This factorization allows to efficiently resum large logarithms between Lambda QCD and m_Q as well as between m_Q and the scale of the hard process in the production of boosted heavy mesons at colliders.
As an application I will present updated theoretical predictions for the brancing ratio of W -> B \gamma.