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B-decays in the heavy-quark expansion

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Progress in the theoretical description of B-meson decays, in particular decays to light hadrons, is reviewed. The factorization properties of such decays can be analyzed using the soft-collinear effective theory. Applications of the effective theory to both inclusive and exclusive decays are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0411065,
  title  = {B-decays in the heavy-quark expansion},
  author = {Thomas Becher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0411065},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Talk presented at the 15th Topical Conference on Hadron Collider Physics (Michigan State University, June 2004) and at the 11th International QCD Conference (Montpellier, July 2004). 14 pages, 4 figures