====== TTP00-27 Light-Cone Distribution Functions for $B$ Decays at subleading Order in $1/m_b$ ====== We construct the higher twist structure functions that describe inclusive b hadron decays in regions of phase space where the hadronic decay products carry high energy but have low invariant mass. We show that, for B meson decays, there are four new non-vanishing matrix elements of non-local operators. We show that to subleading twist these decays are parametrized in terms of four functions. We compute the tree-level matching for a general heavy-to-light current and apply it to B -> X_s gamma. Using a simple model for these functions we estimate the subleading twist contributions to this decay. |**Christian Bauer, Michael Luke, Thomas Mannel** | |** Phys.Rev. D68 094001 2003 ** | | {{preprints:2000:ttp00-27.pdf|PDF}} {{preprints:2000:ttp00-27.ps|PostScript}} [[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0102089|arXiv]] | | |