Failure of local duality in inclusive non-leptonic heavy flavour decays Original Research Article

We argue that there is strong experimental evidence in the data of b- and c-decays that the pattern of power suppressed corrections predicted by the short distance expansion, the heavy quark effective theory and the assumption of local duality is not correct for the non-leptonic inclusive widths. The data indicate instead the presence of 1m corrections that should be absent in the above theoretical framework. These corrections can be simply described by replacing the heavy quark mass by the mass of the decaying hadron in the m5 factor in front of all the non-leptonic widths.