====== TTP97-13 Complete O(alpha_s^2) Corrections to Zero-Recoil Sum Rules for B-->D* Transitions ====== D* Transitions > We present the complete O(alpha_s^2) corrections to the Wilson coefficient of the unit operator in the zero-recoil sum rule for the B-->D* transition. We include both perturbative and power-suppressed nonperturbative effects in a manner consistent with the operator product expansion. The impact of these corrections on |V_cb| extracted from semileptonic B-->D* decays near zero recoil is discussed. The mixing of the heavy quark kinetic operator with the unit operator at the two loop level is obtained. O(alpha_s) corrections to a number of power-suppressed operators are calculated. |**Andrzej Czarnecki, Kirill Melnikov, and Nikolai Uraltsev** | |** Phys. Rev. D57 1769 1998 ** | | {{preprints:1997:ttp97-13.pdf|PDF}} {{preprints:1997:ttp97-13.ps|PostScript}} [[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9706311|arXiv]] | | |