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Aspects of QCD Factorization

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-23 v1

Abstract

The QCD factorization approach provides the theoretical basis for a systematic analysis of nonleptonic decay amplitudes of B mesons in the heavy-quark limit. After recalling the basic ideas underlying this formalism, several tests of QCD factorization in the decays B -> D^(*) L, B -> K^* gamma, and B -> pi K,pi pi are discussed. It is then illustrated how factorization can be used to obtain new constraints on the parameters of the unitarity triangle.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0110093,
  title  = {Aspects of QCD Factorization},
  author = {Matthias Neubert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0110093},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

Talk presented at the Workshop on QCD: Theory and Experiment (Martina Franca, Italy, 16--20 June 2001), and at the 9th Symposium on Heavy Flavour Physics (Pasadena, CA, 10--13 September 2001); 12 pages, 4 figures, uses aipproc style file