Charmless Hadronic B-Meson Decays
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-12-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We give an overview of the experimental measurements and the theoretical understanding of the branching fractions and CP-violating asymmetries of charmless B-meson decays. Most experimetal results are from the BABAR and Belle experiments during the past decade. The global features of these experimental results are typically well described by the QCD-motivated theories such as QCD factorization, pQCD and soft-collinear effective theory. The agreement between theory and experiment is generally satisfactory, though there remain some unsolved puzzles that pose a great challenge to both theorists and experimentalists.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0901.4396,
title = {Charmless Hadronic B-Meson Decays},
author = {Hai-Yang Cheng and Jim Smith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.4396},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
33 pages, 11 figures, 1 table, invited review to appear in Ann. Rev. of Nucl. and Part. Science