====== TTP01-30 Counting contact terms in $B \to V \gamma$ decays ====== We clarify the origin and cancellation of contact terms in the weak annihilation amplitudes contributing to $B\to V \gamma$. It is demonstrated that the photon emission from the final-state quarks vanishes in the chiral limit of massless quarks. The contact terms in the QCD light-cone sum rule evaluation of the weak annihilation amplitudes are also discussed. |**Alexander Khodjamirian and Daniel Wyler** | |** in a volume "From Integrable Models to Gauge Theories", in honor of Sergei Matinyan, edited by V. G. Gurzadyan and A. G. Sedrakian, World Scientific, Singapore, 2002 ** | | {{preprints:2001:ttp01-30.pdf|PDF}} {{preprints:2001:ttp01-30.ps|PostScript}} [[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0111249|arXiv]] | | |