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We consider matching from SCETI , which includes ultrasoft and collinear particles, onto SCETII with soft and collinear particles at one loop. Keeping the external fermions off their mass shell does not regulate all IR divergences in both theories. We give a new prescription to regulate infrared divergences in SCET. Using this regulator, we show that soft and collinear modes in SCETII are sufficient to reproduce all the infrared divergences of SCETI . We explain the relationship between IR regulators and an additional mode proposed for SCETII .

Two new sum rules were recently discovered by Le Yaouanc et al. by applying the operator product expansion to the nonforward matrix element of a time-ordered product of b → c currents in the heavy-quark limit of QCD. They lead to the constraints σ 2 > 5ρ 2 /4 and σ 2 > 3(ρ 2 ) 2 /5 + 4ρ 2 /5 on the curvature of theB → D ( * ) Isgur-Wise function, both of which imply the absolute lower bound σ 2 > 15/16 when combined with the Uraltsev bound ρ 2 > 3/4 on the slope. This paper calculates order α s corrections to these bounds, increasing the accuracy of the resultant constraints on the physical form factors. The latter may have implications for the determination of |V cb | from exclusive semileptonic B meson decays. * Electronic address: dorsten@theory.caltech.edu