QCD Calculations of Decays of Heavy Flavor Hadrons
Abstract
Precision tests of the Standard Model and searches for New Physics in the quark flavor sector depend on accurate theoretical calculations of decay rates and spectra for rare, flavor-changing processes. The theoretical status and recent developments of techniques allowing such calculations are reviewed. Special attention is paid to the calculation of the B->Xs+gamma branching ratio, the extraction of the b-quark mass from a fit to B->Xc+l+nu moments, and the determination of |V(ub)| from spectra in the inclusive decay B->Xu+l+nu. From a reanalysis of different inclusive distributions the updated average value |V(ub)|=(3.98+-0.15+-0.30)*10^{-3} is derived. Using only the theoretically cleanest channels, we obtain |V(ub)|=(3.70+-0.15+-0.28)*10^{-3}.
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@article{arxiv.0801.0675,
title = {QCD Calculations of Decays of Heavy Flavor Hadrons},
author = {Matthias Neubert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0675},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Invited plenary talk delivered at the 23rd International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energy (Daegu, Korea, 13-18 August 2007)