Next-to-leading-order matching for the magnetic photon-penguin operator in the B → Xsγ decay Original Research Article

The initial condition at the matching scale μw = O(Mw) for the Wilson coefficient of the magnetic photon-penguin operator in the decay B → Xsγ is calculated in the next-to-leading order approximation. The technical details of the necessary two-loop calculation in the full theory are described and the matching with the corresponding result in the effective theory is discussed in detail. Our outcome for the initial condition confirms the final results of Adel and Yao and Greub and Hurth. We show that the matching procedure can be properly performed for infrared divergent amplitudes, i.e. independently of contributions from gluon bremsstrahlung.